6 Quotes & Sayings By Emily Croy Barker

Emily Croy Barker is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. She was the 2008 recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and is a contributing editor at  The Paris Review. Her short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, North American Review, and elsewhere.

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How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality? Emily Croy Barker
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The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief. Emily Croy Barker
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No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be. Emily Croy Barker
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And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language. Emily Croy Barker
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Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem. Emily Croy Barker