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“It was a hermitage, her glimmering retreat. No people invited, for what could they know of the secrets that crept and chilled and chuckled in the marrow of her bones? No need of people, because she was self-fulfilling, delighted with the pre-eminence of her art, and the future of her knowing hands.
But the pinnacle become an abyss, and the diving joy ended. At last there was a prison.
I am encompassed by a wall, high and hard and stone, with only my brainy nails to tear it down.
And I cannot do it.”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“Do you believe in reincarnation?'
Yale looked at Fiona for help, but she was only waiting for his answer, bemused. 'I'd like to, I guess.'
'Well.' She patted his hand. 'If we get to do it, let's all come back at the same time, You two, Nico, Ranko, Modi, everyone fun. It'll be a party, and we won't let any stupid war break it up.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“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

“If we could just be on the earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple. And it's not. But listen: you two are on the planet at the same time. You're in the same place now. That's a miracle.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers