The Great Believers Quotes

“We'd been through something our parents hadn't. The war made us older than our parents. And when you're older than your parents, what are you going to do? Who's going to show you how to live?”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Whatever bond had been forced upon Fiona and Cecily in Yale's hospital room didn't have lasting power; trauma wasn't always the best glue.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“He thought of Nora's idea of time travel. What a horrible kind of travel, that took you only forward into the terrifying future, constantly farther from whatever had once made you happy. Only maybe that wasn't what she'd meant. Maybe she meant the older you got, the more decades you had at your disposal to revisit with your eyes closed.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers