Marjorie Celona

No one has patience for love except their own.

— Marjorie Celona

Don’t believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes.

— Marjorie Celona

“Knowing the story doesn't make it any better. We get what we're given, nothing more, nothing less.”

— Marjorie Celona

“See, we're intellectual equals. I am as smart as your mother, and she is as smart as me. This is a problem.…

— Marjorie Celona

“Vaughn plucks the wishbone from what's left of the chicken and holds it out for me to reach. It's the one thing…

— Marjorie Celona

“Y That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? Me with…

— Marjorie Celona

“We'll get to know each other bit by bit, and each time we meet shell tell me a little more about the…

— Marjorie Celona

“Don’t marry someone you love. Love makes you stupid.”

— Marjorie Celona

“He's a little less cool than Jude--a little lower on the social ladder. He wears the same uniform as Jude, the checked…

— Marjorie Celona

“When you're in the thick of your life, it feels like a mess--one surprise after the next. But later, when you look…

— Marjorie Celona

For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who…

— Marjorie Celona

“I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle…

— Marjorie Celona

Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

— Marjorie Celona

“On good days, Quinn and Eugene regard each other as pieces of strange furniture brought in by Yula to add further clutter…

— Marjorie Celona

“She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because…

— Marjorie Celona