Holly LeCraw > Quotes

“A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.”
― Holly LeCraw, The Half Brother

“Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling them so - that the maturity that wanted was going to happen, that someday they would look as completed as they felt, in their fleeting, truest moments.”
― Holly LeCraw, The Half Brother

“Every year, when we finished Gatsby, I read the last page aloud. Also, every year, I wept... I almost looked forward to it. Crying once a year is probably necessary... it was involuntary, almost external, like being rained on, a nourishment, and it made me glad that I could feel that deeply, or had once.”
― Holly LeCraw, The Half Brother

“May stood there in the column of her love. She thought the force of her mind might wake her. But Anita slept on even though May felt her self, her person, was shouting.”
― Holly LeCraw, The Half Brother: A Novel