23 Quotes by Maile Meloy

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.

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

What has mattered, always, is that they're together, and everything else falls away.

It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'),

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

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?

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

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