“ 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… Maile Meloy
“ She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. Maile Meloy
“ The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way? Maile Meloy
“ At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. Maile Meloy
“ 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… Maile Meloy
“ His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him. Maile Meloy
“ He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out. Maile Meloy
“ I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up. Maile Meloy
“ Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he’d had any effect on her at all. Maile Meloy
“ 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,… Maile Meloy
“ Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences, the count said. The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence. Maile Meloy
“ One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed. Maile Meloy
“ It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'), Maile Meloy
