Heidi Julavits Quotes

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I fear that book reviews are just an opportunity for a critic to strive for humor, and to appear funny and smart and a little bitchy, without attempting to espouse any higher ideals.... This is wit for wit's sake—or hostility for hostility's sake.. I call it Snark.

Heidi Julavits
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

Heidi Julavits
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

Heidi Julavits
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

Heidi Julavits
I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

Heidi Julavits
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.

Heidi Julavits