Invisible Quote by Maile Meloy

“He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.”

— Maile Meloy

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

— Maile Meloy

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

— Maile Meloy

“Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law.…

— Maile Meloy

“Children were experiments, and his had failed.”

— Maile Meloy

“Maybe we made her feel safe,' Aaron said. 'So she can be brave.”

— Maile Meloy

“All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.”

— Maile Meloy

“We're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere…

— Maile Meloy

“Benjamin called it “estro-lock,” the way the two women could talk for hours and lose track of time. They ended up in conversation across…

— Maile Meloy

“Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences,” the count said. “The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.”

— Maile Meloy

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

— Maile Meloy

“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every…

— Maile Meloy