Maylan Murray

“You and I were going to grow old side by side, once upon a time,” Max said.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“We can and should trust novelists when they tell us the beautiful lies of their fiction.”
― Julian Barnes, Departure[s]

“It was Jacob himself. Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried that happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Like an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was. No wonder I was so eager to see him.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Don't cry or I'll cry," my dad says. He has not historically been a crier, but he is one now, because that's how life is. You don't yet know who you'll become.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck