Sara Casey

“He said, "everyone knows how short life is. Fiona and I know it especially. But no one ever talks about how long it is. And it's-- does that make sense? Every life is too short, even the long ones, but some people's lives are too long as well. I mean-- maybe that won't make sense til you're older."

He stepped onto the escalator first, and he rode backward to face them.

He said, "if we could just be on 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

“You’ll never know anyone’s marriage but your own. And even then, you’ll only know half of it.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“If we could just be on 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.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“A handful of dead astronauts and Reagan weeps with the nation. Thirteen thousand dead gay men and Reagan’s too busy.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers