Lauren Groff Quotes

“Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.”
― James Wood

“There was the other thing, the far worse thing. During the same time she began to write, she left him. He was wrapped up in his work. She came back and he never knew she was gone.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Mathilde had always been a fist, in truth. Only with Lotto had she been an open hand.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies