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Rebecca Makkai quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rebecca Makkai quotes: 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.

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

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

Rebecca Makkai quotes: I might be the villain of this story.

I might be the villain of this story.

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

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 quotes: Because I couldn't think of anything nonprofane to say at that moment, I said nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

Rebecca Makkai quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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.

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 quotes: I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.

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 quotes: 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.

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.