“...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“...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, The Borrower“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 before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.”
Rebecca Makkai, The Borrower“The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.”
Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House“History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase”
Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime: Stories“We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed”
Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime: Stories“The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story”
Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime: Stories“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight”
I'm happy to be the exception.