Quotes from Rebecca Makkai's books, and about them
I Have Some Questions for You on Beloved: “She grabs her backpack (reported contents: hairbrush, lipstick, tampons, calculus book, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Granby-issued weekly planner, assorted pens and scrunchies, mini deodorant, dorm room key), slips past the other changing girls, exits via the backstage fire escape.”
I Have Some Questions for You on Our Town: “Maybe she could spare me to work October Follies when she couldn't spare her juniors and seniors, already busy building the set for Our Town.”
I Have Some Questions for You on Little Shop of Horrors: “Thalia was packing, her back to me, and I flipped to the Little Shop of Horrors page and signed my name—only my name—under the cast and crew photo that included us both.”
I Have Some Questions for You on Camelot: “Flagged by the verifying agent as extensively and centrally referenced throughout the book (the school's musical production, performed the night of the murder) but not scored highly enough by the detector to appear as its own top-200 candidate.”
The Borrower on David Copperfield: “I told eighteen-year-old Ian to read David Copperfield (“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”)”