Kelly Braffet
Kelly Braffet writes stories about unhappy people making bad decisions, occasionally with magic. She is the author of The Unwilling (available 2/20 from Mira Books), Save Yourself, and Last Seen Leaving; her first novel, Josie and Jack, has been made into a feature film starring Olivia DeJonge, Alex Neustaedter, and William Fitchner, and directed by Sarah Lancaster. Her writing has been published in the Fairy Tale Review, Post Road, and in several anthologies, as well as on Salon.com. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.
She is married to the tall and immensely talented writer Owen King. He's dreamy. For more, see www.kellybraffet.com.
“It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?”
Kelly Braffet
“You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.”
Kelly Braffet
“Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?”
Kelly Braffet
“Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?”
Kelly Braffet
“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”
Kelly Braffet
“Logic is what the devil likes most.”
Kelly Braffet
“It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.”
Kelly Braffet