“ She was struck by the selfish thought that this was not fair to her. That she’d been in the middle of a different story, one that had nothing to do with this. She was a person who was finding her daug… Rebecca Makkai
“ By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters. Rebecca Makkai
“ The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began. Rebecca Makkai
“ History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase Rebecca Makkai
“ We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed Rebecca Makkai
“ The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story Rebecca Makkai
“ If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been. Rebecca Makkai
“ ...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies. Rebecca Makkai
“ She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years b… Rebecca Makkai
