Lexie

“Sometimes--as it was happening now--the music on the radio matched the rhythm of the bridge. The cables climbed toward the second arch, and she felt herself in the uncanny presence of beauty. Nothing else in her day stirred her to the contemplation of abstract ideas. The bridge was making an argument for its own soundness as she drove over it.”
― Matthew Thomas

“Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren’t that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure on their having been the way they’d been had found release through a necessary valve.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“He wanted, one day, to be a person who went out of his way to find out what made other people happy.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves: A New York Times Notable Book and Sprawling Irish-American Adult Fiction Novel

“Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves