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Ethan Joella teaches English and psychology at the University of Delaware and specializes in community writing workshops. His work has appeared in River Teeth, The Cimarron Review, The MacGuffin, Delaware Beach Life, and Third Wednesday. He is the author of A Little Hope, which was a Read with Jenna Bonus Selection and A Quiet Life. He lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with his wife and two daughters.

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Ethan Joella I started A QUIET LIFE because one morning I heard a man on the
boardwalk say he was making his first trip to Florida without
his wife who had died, and…more
I started A QUIET LIFE because one morning I heard a man on the
boardwalk say he was making his first trip to Florida without
his wife who had died, and I couldn’t stop thinking about him. From that moment, I thought of Chuck Ayers in winter, walking around his house holding his wife Cat's favorite towel, which is where the novel begins. (less)
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A Little Hope

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A Quiet Life

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The Same Bright Stars

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“Well, we do the things they weren't able to. We vote because they can no longer vote. We look at the ocean because they can't. We think about them when we put up a Christmas tree, and later when we sit there and gaze at the lights. We do all the things they can't. That is how we love them when they're gone.”
Ethan Joella, A Little Hope

“Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a painting or a photograph will leave its shadows on the wall after it's gone, the way a tree will leave a crater where the roots and stump were.

He thinks of all this- this is the price he has paid for loving so much, and it doesn't feel better, but it makes sense. It seems reasonable.”
Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life
tags: loss, love

“You never know what can break you. What you can fix, what you can stand up to. You never know what time will do, what will defeat or surprise you. You never know.”
Ethan Joella, A Little Hope

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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Well, we do the things they weren't able to. We vote because they can no longer vote. We look at the ocean because they can't. We think about them when we put up a Christmas tree, and later when we sit there and gaze at the lights. We do all the things they can't. That is how we love them when they're gone.”
Ethan Joella, A Little Hope

“Freddie has always loved mornings. She likes the margin she gains when she’s the first awake. She likes the way the back lawn outside the window looks rested and raked. She likes the way half the kitchen is dark. The sun through the skylight makes lazy shadows of trees across the wood floors, and she wanders around the house as if she has just discovered it.”
Ethan Joella, A Little Hope

“Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a painting or a photograph will leave its shadows on the wall after it's gone, the way a tree will leave a crater where the roots and stump were.

He thinks of all this- this is the price he has paid for loving so much, and it doesn't feel better, but it makes sense. It seems reasonable.”
Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life
tags: loss, love

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