Rebecca Makkai Quotes

“...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.”

“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.”

“The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.”

“History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase”

“We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed”

“The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story”

“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight”

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