The Heavens Quotes

“It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be. But pointless.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“There were others like her. Of course there were. How had she ever thought there would not be?”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“She couldn't know anyone, but someone still needed her. She couldn't be anyone, but she could still love.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“At last he had risen to hold forth tragically about the misfortune that it was to be alive.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“It was night, and the sky spreading into a rain that fell like darkness visible, a glistering where there was no light.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“She could hide in this small, dull life.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“The dream was greater than a dream. It was a greater life than life.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“But this was reality, occluded and delicate.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“Nonetheless, it left him with a terrible doubt, a fear that inhabited every scene.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“Sweet wine from Spain and gossip from France; the sun in the windows dimmed, sorrowed prettily as the day declined, until the candles' light was mirrored in the glass. Their dabbling flames were like guesses at a feeling, the hearth's fire like the feeling itself. It was a beautiful pastime she had missed; hours that had stepped light-footed on Emilia's memory and passed on.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“So he thinks he has a baby and everything falls into place? What gets me is, people have babies and they're thinking what the baby will do for them. It's sick.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“You really don't understand what it's like to have bad parents, do you?”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“The dream was strongest of all when Kate's heart was broken. Then she fell asleep as if falling out of life, and the dream became numinous as real things are numinous, vivid even as it blankly slept. She couldn't prove it even to her own satisfaction, but she felt the dream was quickened by love.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“Because crazy people weren’t weaker than you—he’d often thought this about his mother—they were stronger. They outlasted you, even when they died. They would tread you underfoot without noticing.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“But something had shifted. She pursued it, saying, “My father was a Jew of Venice. ’Tis true: I am of that hated race.” He said cautiously, “Much evil is spoken of Jews. But men will speak villainously of anything strange. I am sure they say much that is false.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“And after all, belief was a beautiful thing. That was the trouble with atheists (Kate thought); they might be right, but their unbelief was utilitarian, bleak, like a Brutalist building.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“through the world so easily, like a dandelion seed floating on the wind.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“At last he said, “I could help save the world.” “No,” said Kate. “I think we could be happy. But there isn’t any way to save this world.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“It was the nature of consciousness to care about itself. Put a consciousness anywhere in time, and it would spawn new worlds from its spasms of ego. Thus the ugly kitchen sponge and the government of stooges; the cheap hand soap and the death of the seas.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“There’s no point. It’s a waste of time.” “It isn’t,” said Ben helplessly. “It’s how you get better.” “No one really gets better that way.” “So how do you plan to get better?” “I’m leaving. I’m leaving this history. I said.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“There was a war going on in this world, Kate guessed, a war in which airplanes were used as weapons.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“Even tiny differences matter. There could be a butterfly effect.” “Oh, no, not the butterfly effect,” said Ben teasingly.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“It was as if they had never been apart.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“It was a white pandemonium with the wrong past.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“The maidservants all were in love with Southampton, in a rapt, unhoping way, like a tribe of poets in love with the moon; one would have a fit of tears, then it spread to another and another, until all the house heaved with love's calamity.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“Some days, she was pain incarnate. She would suffer all day and he would try to cheer her up and fail, and he felt like an irrelevant gnat.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“There can be no friendship between our peoples. We live in your nightmares, and you are but our dreams.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“She was a candle in the night, a bright seed of heaven.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens