Benjamin Markovits > Quotes

“is the idea of healing to get you back to the way you used to be or to turn you into something new?”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives

“just wanted to sit around and read books for the rest of my life.”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives

“I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.”
― Benjamin Markovits

“When you live secretly it puts you in a lot of these positions, where you end up doing things you have no real conviction about. But fine, whatever, you just have to get through it.”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives: A Novel

“this is a girl who lives in a TV-show version of her own life, where she thinks the camera is always on her.”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives: A Novel

“Mostly mine. I’m just … a little adrift right now. I can’t seem to get a grip on anything.”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives

“None of it matched, but everything blended together.”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives: A Novel

“Something else to be grateful for: the gentle protection of uneventfulness.”
― Benjamin Markovits, Fathers and Daughters: A Novel

“had a sense of undigested emotional material”
― Benjamin Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives: A Novel