Emily Dunlay

“And I know what that feels like, too, to have time you remember but can never get back. Maybe this is one way books are better than people, one of many ways, which is that we can print them and copy them again and again, and reread them, and every time the words appear in exactly the same order as they were first put down.”
― Emily Dunlay, The Library of Leaving

“It’s frustrating: you want these men to be the masters of the universe they claim to be, you want them to be in complete control of the world they do such damage in, but then they don’t know not to give their secretary roses for her birthday or how to pronounce hors d’oeuvres.”
― Emily Dunlay, Teddy