slaughterhouse90210: “All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character—what we believe—none of it is real; it’s all part of the story we tell.”—Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins Everything I’ve ever loved, together in one Tumblr post. Maris, you are a god.
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slaughterhouse90210:

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character—what we believe—none of it is real; it’s all part of the story we tell.”
—Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

Everything I’ve ever loved, together in one Tumblr post. Maris, you are a god.

slaughterhouse90210: “But if you really want my side of the story, here it is: Who isn’t crazy sometimes? Who hasn’t driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn’t haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn’t toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying that it will ring; who doesn’t lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?”—Jess Walter, We Live in Water YES.
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slaughterhouse90210:

“But if you really want my side of the story, here it is: Who isn’t crazy sometimes? Who hasn’t driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn’t haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn’t toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying that it will ring; who doesn’t lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?”
—Jess Walter, We Live in Water

YES.

nprfreshair: Maureen Corrigan: “I have weeks, as a book reviewer, where I feel like Claire. Those are the weeks when it seems like every new book is a riff on Jane Austen, or a young adult vampire/warrior/shape-shifter fantasy, or yet another homage to dead dogs. And then a literary miracle like Beautiful Ruins appears, and once again I’m a believer.” I found myself dog-earing pages as I read this book, which I never do - and one of the pages I turned down contained this wonderful, succinct, cutting, sad line: “What business does memory have with time?”
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nprfreshair:

Maureen Corrigan: “I have weeks, as a book reviewer, where I feel like Claire. Those are the weeks when it seems like every new book is a riff on Jane Austen, or a young adult vampire/warrior/shape-shifter fantasy, or yet another homage to dead dogs. And then a literary miracle like Beautiful Ruins appears, and once again I’m a believer.”

I found myself dog-earing pages as I read this book, which I never do - and one of the pages I turned down contained this wonderful, succinct, cutting, sad line:

“What business does memory have with time?”