Laura Miller

“I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours.”
“It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who’s used themselves wisely and who’s wasted?”
― Tessa Hadley, The Master Bedroom

“The present was always paramount, in a way that thrust you forward: empty, but also free. Whatever stories you told over to yourself and others, you were in truth exposed and naked in the present, a prow cleaving new waters; your past was insubstantial behind, it fell away, it grew into desuetude, its forms grew obsolete. The problem was, you were always still alive, until the end. You had to do something.”
― Tessa Hadley, The London Train

“Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.”
― Phyllis Theroux, The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

“I can feel my heart growing daily, which has its uncomfortable aspects, as if it could fall with the weight of love and break.”
― Phyllis Theroux, The Journal Keeper: A Memoir