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Book cover for The Great Believers
It hit him, as he reentered the party, Julian behind him, that perhaps Charlie had been onto something after all. And he never would have said “Julian’s in love with you,” because that would’ve made it worse. What mortal wouldn’t fall for ...more
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Lauren Groff
“Peace, he knows, can be shattered in a million variations: great visions of the end, a rain of ash, a disease on the wind, a blast in the distance, the sun dying like a kerosene lamp clicked off. And in smaller ways: an overheard remark, his daughter’s sour mood, his own body faltering. There’s no use in anticipating the mode. He will wait for the hushed spaces in life, for Ellis’s snore in the dark, for Grete’s stealth kiss, for the warm light inside the gallery, his images on the wall broken beyond beauty into blisters and fragments, returning in the eye to beauty again. The voices of women at night on the street, laughing; he has always loved the voices of women. Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath.
He sits. He lets the afternoon sink in. The sweetness of the soil rises to him. A squirrel scolds from high in a tree. The city is still far away, full of good people going home. In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.”
Lauren Groff, Arcadia

Michael Cunningham
“Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.”
Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

John Green
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Rebecca Makkai
“Life isn’t that messy if you stay away from mess.”
Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

Lauren Groff
“Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.”
Lauren Groff, Arcadia

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