The Morningside Quotes

“It’s always dangerous to give people a way to tell themselves stories about you before they get to know you. Always.” He patted my shoulder. “So mind your mother. She’s not wrong.”
― Téa Obreht, The Morningside

“There’s a world underneath the world. You can’t ask and ask and ask to see it. Otherwise, these glimpses of it, they turn bad.”
― Téa Obreht, The Morningside

“Well—few things take longer than a man owning up to a mistake.”
― Téa Obreht, The Morningside

“(“Social change is up to time,” Bowen had said. “Very little of it is up to people.”)”
― Téa Obreht, The Morningside

“Plans required belief. You had to believe that you could lay out steps toward an outcome of your choosing. My mother knew better than that. The pronouncement of intent, the hubris of self-determination—these did not fit her notion of the universe.”
― Téa Obreht, The Morningside

“This was part of Ena’s magic. Familiarities you had come to take for granted were transformed by the act of her storytelling. Her version of things became the only one. She could change the reality of something you thought you’d known all you life.”
― Téa Obreht, The Morningside