Maile Meloy Quotes

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.

Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences, the count said. The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.

Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were...

People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest.

One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed.

And braking,

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.

He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment… She’d been bored and annoyed, and at one point...

Children were experiments, and his had failed.

You—die?

But the commandments were absolute. The stone tablets Moses brought down from the mountain had not said Thou shalt not kill except when fighting Nazis, or in self-defense, or in some other situations,...

But how could you measure your own pain against the pain of the world?

We have to think of a question that we wouldn't otherwise want to answer.'He stood over the pot, looking down at the leaves. 'Something like, Who do you fancy?''That might work,' I said, even though i...

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.