Elise Zukowski

“They meant well, all of them. How could she explain that this city was a graveyard? That they were walking every day through streets where there had been a holocaust, a mass murder of neglect and antipathy, that when they stepped through a pocket of cold air, didn’t they understand it was a ghost, it was a boy the world had spat out?”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my foreverland of ambiguities.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“I hate that we have to live in the middle of history. We make enough mess on our own.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers