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We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is. — Rebecca Makkai

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

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know. — Rebecca Makkai

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

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — Maria Montessori

Folks keep forgetting that wishing don't make nothing so, but prayer sometimes do. — Bette Greene

Aethe, near my heart.
Without vanity, the ribbon.
Without duty, the wind.
Without blood, the victory. — Patrick Rothfuss

Because I couldn't think of anything nonprofane to say at that moment, I said nothing. — Rebecca Makkai

Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited. — Rebecca Makkai

You're never too old for anything! — Betty White

Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust. — Rebecca Makkai

Beliefs are choices. No one has authority over your personal beliefs. Your beliefs are in jeopardy only when you don't know what they are. — Jay Allison

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist. — Rebecca Makkai

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised. — 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

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

I might be the villain of this story. — Rebecca Makkai

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

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. — Daniel Tammet Thinking In Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

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

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form. — Rebecca Makkai

We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them. — Rebecca Makkai

My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it ... — Aeriel Miranda

And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? — 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

I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved. — Rebecca Makkai

And a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth. — James S.A. Corey

These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian could be a thief. — Rebecca Makkai

While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers. — Patrick Rothfuss

Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy. — Rebecca Makkai