Eliza

“If he'd lived, we'd have parted ways soon enough. He'd have had a life out here in the world, outside my mind. But when someone's gone and you're the primary keeper of his memory-- letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn't it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn't change, it couldn't turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“This disease has magnified all our mistakes. Some stupid thing you did when you were nineteen, the one time you weren't careful. And it turns out that was the most important day of your life.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers