Quotes by : Rebecca Makkai

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight I'm happy to be the exception.

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

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

...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction,....

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke,....

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could....

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

She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air....

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