Charlotte

“We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Love, she learned, could reduce its recipient to an essential thing, as important as food or shelter, whose presence is not only longed for but needed.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena