Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms,… — Myla Goldberg Broken Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg American woman Copy Share Image
“What struck Celia most about young children was the intensity of their passions, life too new to be modulated, perspective a possession… — Myla Goldberg Children Copy Share Image
“Creation takes place through words, a series of 'And God Saids' bringing each new stage of life into being. Language is God's… — Myla Goldberg Divine power Copy Share Image
She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than… — Myla Goldberg Dull Copy Share Image
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… — Myla Goldberg Atheist Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Accidents Copy Share Image
“Rushing toward her are all the letters of the alphabet. Each one moves in its own way, X cartwheeling over and over,… — Myla Goldberg Image Copy Share Image
“Having already funneled its students to their respective classrooms, the school's front hall was empty, its glass showcase in the same neglected… — Myla Goldberg Education Copy Share Image
“The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love,… — Myla Goldberg Hope Copy Share Image
“Miriam will never know what kind of dog attacked her, will imagine a Doberman or a German shepherd with snarling, angry teeth… — Myla Goldberg Bite Marks Copy Share Image
As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well… — Myla Goldberg Admire Copy Share Image
“While she eventually adjusts to the faded motivational posters featuring long-dead baby animals and the fifties-era reading books whose soporific effects have… — Myla Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
“The two bond over their mutual lack of family ties: Saul from his disownment, Miriam from the car accident that orphaned her… — Myla Goldberg Car accident Copy Share Image
The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read. — Myla Goldberg Curious Copy Share Image
“They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is… — Myla Goldberg Death Copy Share Image
“Equity, they came to realize, was not the same thing as equivalence, as evidenced by beside tables and snowflakes the world over.” — Myla Goldberg Justice Copy Share Image
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant. — Myla Goldberg Consonants Copy Share Image
