# Quote — Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl

> “...this is very nice, cozy. You got a nice cozy place, Lublin." "Cramped," Rosa said. "I work from a different theory. For everything, there's a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you go along better." "I don't like to give myself lies," Rosa said. "Life is short, we all got to lie.”

- Author: [Cynthia Ozick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cynthia-ozick.md)
- Book: [The Shawl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cynthia-ozick/the-shawl.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ozick#The_Shawl_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cynthia-ozick/the-shawl/this-is-very

## More from this book

> Because she fears the past she distrusts the future — it, too, will turn into the past.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cynthia-ozick/the-shawl/because-she-fears.md)

> "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cynthia-ozick/the-shawl/if-youre-alone.md)