I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of the lobby beacuse Sarah's hair is flying up in my face, blocking my view. I want justice!" she wails. Well, we'll get you some of that too. " Magda has appeared from out of nowhere. "Maybe there's some in the freezer.
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.