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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And Yahav appeared regularly on Britt and Alder’s show, speaking to the legal side of things. He was still married to his wife. He was still beautiful.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And you are never reasonable when you are in love.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Her voice had run into a wall. She tried again but no sound came out. She said, “It would’ve been easier if he’d said something funny.” They all laughed, just to add their voices to the room, to get her through this.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He did Choristers and orchestra and Follies and spring musical and taught a few classes.” Jamila said, “They had one person doing all that?” “It was a different place.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He looked for Terrence, to see how he was holding up, but he wasn’t in the chair by the wall anymore. Nico must have taken him home. No. No, Nico had not taken him home.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “This sounded plausible in all but the interpretation – the kind of thing Jerome might have done when buzzed.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Back at Granby, everything was still – a snow globe no one had shaken in days.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Whatever bond had been forced upon Fiona and Cecily in Yale’s hospital room didn’t have lasting power; trauma wasn’t always the best glue.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “You think you can’t go home again? It’s the only place you can ever go.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He was a flirt, I knew that and liked it. But never creepy. His method was to grin, crinkle his eyes, bite his lip, caress the bowl of his wineglass. Not to rub shoulders or talk to boobs or hover with onion breath.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I cared a about the details. Not because they were something I could control, but because they were something I could own. And there was so little that was mine.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And I really used to believe we’d be the last generation... I was thinking about the whole planet. And now it’s like no... You’re the one who’s gonna miss out. Not even the end of the world... but just the normal stuff.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I wanted to paint him, that was my first thought, but the next instant I was smitten. I’d never understood it before, how artists fall for their muses. I thought it was just a bunch of men who couldn’t keep it in their pants. But there was something about the need to paint him and the need to possess him – they were the same impulse.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people – of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they’d ever represented, every promise.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “There were older people you couldn’t imagine young, and there were those whose faces still held on to what they’d looked like at twenty-five.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “But the moony expression on Roman’s face, his voice, had hit the darkest spot of Yale’s humor. How beautiful, the doomed love! How gorgeous and ambient, the ways we abandon each other! The lovely wars we die in, the poetry of disease!”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “What it was, I had a crush on the two of you together. Not in a porny way, not like – it was the two of you as a duo. You were always having so much fun.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Those Reddit detectives would have had a field day in here. They’d have whipped out their measuring tapes, their calculators.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “It’s been a long time since I had a day that just cuts your life in two.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I’ve always been happiest when I can sit in the dark, when I can turn off my own life and watch a story unfold.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “All they need to do is vaguely suggest it. They’re likely to paint you as a nosy person, overinvolved, trying to make a name for yourself. Their goal is to get the judge to dislike you.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “We’re gonna need new leaders all the time. The problem with this movement is the leaders keep dying. We gotta have subs.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Or maybe it was because it wasn’t happening primarily to the gay community there, wasn’t only killing beautiful young men who reminded her of Nico and his friends.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Just because you can’t picture someone doing something doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of it.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “The term rabbit hole makes us think of Alice plummeting straight down, but what I mean is an actual rabbit warren, the kind with endless looping tunnels, branching paths, all the accompanying claustrophobia.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Claire allows that.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Charlie said, “I don’t deserve you.” He was looking into the fridge like it held King Tut’s treasures. Yale said, “Remember that, next time I leave the window open and it rains.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “This project was undertaken with a great deal of ongoing thought and conversation and concern about the line between allyship and appropriation – a line that might feel different to different readers. It is my great hope that this book will lead the curious to read direct, personal accounts of the AIDS crisis – and that any places where I’ve gotten the details wrong might inspire people to tell their own stories.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “For a teenager, being seen a certain way is as good as being that way.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Oh, Jerome. I would have stopped him if I’d seen that, would have explained on the way home why that was inappropriate.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “She’d figure it out herself, sooner or later-the way a person could change, and yet you couldn’t let go of your initial conception. How the man who was once perfect for you could become trapped inside a stranger.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Alder stood, brushed off his jeans. He said, “I’m a Black man in America. My hopes aren’t up.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “The need to keep busy is both a symptom of high-functioning anxiety and the key to my success.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Adler struck me as a hugely creative kid who’d gotten the unfortunate message early on that there was always a right answer.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “You have to accept that, at least: beneath everything, despite a privileged life and a sense of humor, I was an angry person.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And who was he kidding? It wasn’t love. It was attraction. It was a seed that might have grown, given better soil, more sun.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He went back to the kiss in his mind. He could live there a long time. It was warm there and good.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Inserting themselves into someone else’s story any way possible?”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Being on an airplane, even in coach, was the closest an adult could come to the splendid helplessness of infancy.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I thought of a friend in La who’d said recently of her own daughter, “It feels wrong to give her all this happiness and confidence when we know what is coming. Seventh grade is going to hit like a wall. It feels like fattening a pig for slaughter.” But what was the alternative? Starving the pig?”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “The thing is, I wanted to be a muse. It had to do with my own art, the way it wasn’t expressing the losses I felt. And if I couldn’t paint it all myself, maybe someone could paint my soul. It was a stab at immortality of course.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “They posited that one night, high on drugs and jealous over her ongoing relationship with Robbie Serenho, he lost it – and everything about his ex came flooding back until in a fit of rage he strangled Thalia, bashed her head on something hard, changed her into that swimsuit, threw her unconscious body into the pool.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “The thought came to Yale, as Dr. Cheng listened to his lungs, that this could be the man presiding over his final days. That in walking through his door, he’d potentially chosen a partnership more permanent than any other in his life. Till death do us part.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “People take their reasons with them, don’t they?”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “She’s just a fundamentally angry human.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “People would move on. Trump would say something dangerously idiotic any moment now, and everyone’s attention would turn.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Mike was an interesting case study: someone with a career’s worth of experience in human rights, who still couldn’t quite handle justice if it would affect his buddy.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “In another universe, I kissed Geoff then. In that other universe, I understood that I was not disgusting, that Geoff might have welcomed it or in any case would at least have been flattered. I’d have let down my guard, allowed myself to like a real and attainable person, rather than dead musicians and the hottest boy at Granby. But in the real world, it never crossed my mind.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He took his eyes off of traffic long enough to look at Yale, and Yale’s face did involuntary things.”
Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Or maybe it was just that he wanted to believe in a world where this apartment still existed, where it was forever 1985, where the door might open at any moment and there would be Julian with a party invitation, Terrence with beer, Nico with a new comic for Charlie.”
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