The Upstairs House Quotes

“Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song.”
― Julia Fine, The Upstairs House

“Here I was, pondering the incongruity of being a mother and an academic, of devoting oneself to two projects, which is to say living a life, which is, I guess, no incongruity at all. Merely living, merely choosing, in each moment, who and what to which you will attend. The Latin, atendere, means to stretch.”
― Julia Fine, The Upstairs House

“He was sweet. But he was oblivious in the way that straight, white men are oblivious; comfortable in the way only men can be comfortable. He had on a button-down and a Patagonia vest.”
― Julia Fine, The Upstairs House