Music for Wartime Quotes

“The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep.”
― Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime

“We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed”
― Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime

“[E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ "The Worst You Ever Feel”
― Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime

“History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase”
― Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime