The Homemade God Quotes

“It’s not only themselves that the dead take away. They take a part of us, too: when living, they are inside us, and without them we carry a vacant space.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Homemade God

“We’re like birds in a nest. We want to love our siblings, yet we need to boot them out. I want to be with them, but I can’t. I want to leave them, and I can’t do that”
― Rachel Joyce, The Homemade God

“The fact is,” she said, “we’re all born. We’re all going to die. So the only interesting question is what we choose to do with the middle.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Homemade God

“Traveling toward the dead, it turned out, was not like traveling at all. Because how could you move toward someone who was not there? It was a no-win kind of journey, where the end point was not a gain but a subtraction. A nothing that opened out into more and more nothing.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Homemade God