Top 160 Rebecca Makkai Quotes (2024 Update)
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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Being on an airplane, even in coach, was the closest an adult could come to the splendid helplessness of infancy.”

151. “Being on an airplane, even in coach, was the closest an adult could come to the splendid helplessness of infancy.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “The hell of imprisonment isn’t the terrible food, it’s the lack of choice of food. It isn’t the cold, wet floor, it’s that you can’t choose another place to stand. It isn’t the confinement so much as the fact of never running, never getting in your car and speeding off, as Omar loved to do.”

152. “The hell of imprisonment isn’t the terrible food, it’s the lack of choice of food. It isn’t the cold, wet floor, it’s that you can’t choose another place to stand. It isn’t the confinement so much as the fact of never running, never getting in your car and speeding off, as Omar loved to do.”

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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?”

153. “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?”

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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.”

154. “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.”

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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.”

155. “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.”

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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.”

156. “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.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “People take their reasons with them, don’t they?”

157. “People take their reasons with them, don’t they?”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “She’s just a fundamentally angry human.”

158. “She’s just a fundamentally angry human.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “People would move on. Trump would say something dangerously idiotic any moment now, and everyone’s attention would turn.”

159. “People would move on. Trump would say something dangerously idiotic any moment now, and everyone’s attention would turn.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “The dosage of my antidepressant is such that I haven’t cried actual tears in a decade, but there are times when I want so badly to cry that I make all the noises of crying, press my fists into my eyes so I feel something similar. The absence of tears hurts more – or makes whatever hurts hurt more – than if I could just sob.”

160. “The dosage of my antidepressant is such that I haven’t cried actual tears in a decade, but there are times when I want so badly to cry that I make all the noises of crying, press my fists into my eyes so I feel something similar. The absence of tears hurts more – or makes whatever hurts hurt more – than if I could just sob.”

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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.”

161. “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.”

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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.”

162. “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.”

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