9 Quotes & Sayings By Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai is the author of two novels, The Borrowed here and now and The Hundred-Year House, as well as a collection of short stories, Small Changes. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Paris Review and she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. A professor at DePaul University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, her classes explore gender, sexuality and ethics in literature.

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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. Rebecca Makkai
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...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
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If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been. Rebecca Makkai
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The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story Rebecca Makkai
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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
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We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed Rebecca Makkai
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History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase Rebecca Makkai
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The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began. Rebecca Makkai