
Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller

you don’t just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them. And then you have to mourn both.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
we don’t always notice beginnings. Endings are usually easier to detect.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
They were a pair, as some things naturally and undeniably were, and once a pair was established, everything outside it (himself, for example) became inevitably and inherently extraneous.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
they’d always been like two adjacent locks in a canal, one opening into the other, pouring off excess feeling, seeking equilibrium, though she was usually the lock in danger of overflowing and he the one who absorbed excess, rose up as she sank down. People thought being twins made them the same, but it was balance, not sameness, she felt with him.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
they wouldn’t like the books if the story gave them exactly what they wanted.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
People like to remind her that she is from outside. You can’t become an Alaskan. It’s just not possible. She is not one of them, but still, she feels she belongs.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
Her hair was a declaration, not an admission.