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“If anyone were to ask me what love is, I would say, The knowledge that, in a world of lies, there is one person who is totally honest with you and with whom you are totally honest, and there is truth between you, even if it isn’t always spoken.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“The three floors of the psyche do not exist inside us at all! Absolutely not! They exist in the air between us and someone else, in the space between our mouths and the ears we are telling our story to. And if there is no one there to listen—there is no story. If there is no one we can tell our secrets to and sharpen our memories on and find consolation in, then we talk into an answering machine, Michael. The main thing is to talk to someone. Otherwise, alone, a person has no idea which of the three floors he is on, and he is doomed to grope in the dark for the light switch.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“Sometimes I still set the table for two by mistake. I say a silent goodbye to you when I leave. And a silent hello when I return. But more terrible than those moments are the ones in which I no longer feel you. And they have been growing in number recently. Suddenly I can’t remember the shape of your ears. Suddenly I manage to complete a crossword puzzle without you. Remove a blockage in the sink drain without you. That’s when I feel an empty space where you used to be. I feel that this entire apartment is a space where we used to be. And if I stay here, I will become trapped in the cobweb of your death that is being spun around me, fated to die an insect’s death.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“But from now on, my love, my joy, my disaster, it’s no longer our way. It’s my way.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“It’s ridiculous, I know. Talking to a machine. A normal person would not do that. But if I’ve learned anything in the last few weeks, it’s that there is no such thing as a normal person. Or normal actions. There are only actions that a particular person, at a particular time, must do.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“Every family is a planet unto itself, and sometimes you need someone from another planet to land on yours in order to understand.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“Le cose stanno così. A volte chi sparge sale non sa che il suo sale incontra una ferita, invece di un'insalata.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Tre piani

“We have to take a long breath. Both of us. And be patient. People usually lose each other because one of them doesn’t have the patience to wait for the other one to be ready.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“Travelers become accustomed to the freedom they have when they’re away and the ones remaining behind become used to managing alone. And when they are back in each other’s arms, it’s difficult for them to re-establish their shared rhythm.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“You said that dreams were meant to fill the gap between what is and what is desired, and that in both your personal and professional life, there was no such gap. You declared, I don’t need dreams, so I don’t dream!”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“After seeing all of that, you realize that morality is completely relative.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“And there is nothing worse than feeling redundant, Michael. Redundant in the morning. Redundant at noon. Redundant in the evening. And now, that young girl tells me that I am needed, I am indispensable, people are waiting for me.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“And it had been a long time since anyone needed me.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“Aren’t you going to tell her that even among the remotest tribes in the Amazon, sexual relations between family members is absolutely forbidden?! That, after all, is what the girl really needed. That’s what all the patients filling the tent and waiting on line outside needed. To be told what’s good and what’s bad. And you people, instead of telling them that, say that bad is also good and good is also bad. So yes, they leave the tent with a spring in their step. Someone listened to them without judging them. Someone supported them. Wonderful. We all want to be supported. But the next morning, the unsolved moral dilemma will return to torment them, and this time with greater intensity, because now it’s out in the open.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“It seems that the line between “privateâ€� and “public,â€� between “innerâ€� and “outer,â€� has moved these past several years without informing us. And perhaps it has been completely erased.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“But apparently our soul doesn’t move forward but only in circles. Dooming us to fall into the same pits over and over again.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“And I don’t have the strength to fake the happiness that is no longer inside me.”
― Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up

“Ascultă, după ce ai trăit vreme de douăzeci de ani cu o femeie, nu mai È™tii unde te termini tu È™i unde începe ea. Iar dacă te părăseÈ™te, pleacă cu tot cu tine.”
― Eshkol Nevo, שלוש קומות

“Foarte curând, una dintre noi se va elibera de dorinÈ›a de a-È™i prezenta propria viață ca fiind perfectă, iar în clipa aceea vor începe discuÈ›iile adevărate.”
― Eshkol Nevo, שלוש קומות