Myla Goldberg Quotes

• She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

  Myla Goldberg

  Dull, Deep Within, Something Better

  Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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• School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

  Myla Goldberg

  School, Vowels, Schedules

  Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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• Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

  Myla Goldberg

  Broken, Together, Pieces

  Myla Goldberg (2002). “Bee Season: A Novel”, p.1087, Anchor

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• As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.

  Myla Goldberg

  Sexy, Book, Heart

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• I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

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  Atheist, Bullshit, Trying

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• Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

  Myla Goldberg

  Book, Brave, Portraits

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• At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

  Myla Goldberg

  Morning, Nice, Home

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• The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

  Myla Goldberg

  Fun, Imagination, Empathy

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