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Top 15 Maile Meloy Quotes (2025 Update)

Maile Meloy Quote: “The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.”

1. “The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “Children were experiments, and his had failed.”

2. “Children were experiments, and his had failed.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren’t necessarily meant for you to hear – because how else do you find out about the world?”

3. “To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren’t necessarily meant for you to hear – because how else do you find out about the world?”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.”

4. “He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.”

5. “His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed.”

6. “One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default.”

7. “Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “Diabetes is passed that way – over and down, like a knight in chess.”

8. “Diabetes is passed that way – over and down, like a knight in chess.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “Yvette had never talked about her marriage – she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.”

9. “Yvette had never talked about her marriage – she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.”

10. “At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “There’s a look little girls have who are adored by their fathers,” Bea said. “It’s that facial expression of being totally impervious to the badness of the world. If they can keep that look into their twenties, they’re pretty much okay, they’ve got a force field around them. I don’t know if Jonna ever had it. I think she’s always known about the bad things.”

11. “There’s a look little girls have who are adored by their fathers,” Bea said. “It’s that facial expression of being totally impervious to the badness of the world. If they can keep that look into their twenties, they’re pretty much okay, they’ve got a force field around them. I don’t know if Jonna ever had it. I think she’s always known about the bad things.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.”

12. “Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.”

13. “All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”

14. “The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around.”

15. “I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “We’re creating little hedonists,′ Frank used to say. ‘Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They’ll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.”

16. “We’re creating little hedonists,′ Frank used to say. ‘Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They’ll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.”

17. “He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “What has mattered, always, is that they’re together, and everything else falls away.”

18. “What has mattered, always, is that they’re together, and everything else falls away.”

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Maile Meloy Quote: “But the commandments were absolute. The stone tablets Moses brought down from the mountain had not said Thou shalt not kill except when fighting Nazis, or in self-defense, or in some other situations, listed below. Thou shalt not steal unless thou art near death with hunger fighting in a just cause, or hath a family to support, or if perhaps an irresistible opportunity to get rich presenteth itself.”

19. “But the commandments were absolute. The stone tablets Moses brought down from the mountain had not said Thou shalt not kill except when fighting Nazis, or in self-defense, or in some other situations, listed below. Thou shalt not steal unless thou art near death with hunger fighting in a just cause, or hath a family to support, or if perhaps an irresistible opportunity to get rich presenteth itself.”

— Maile Meloy

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