Jacob Appel > Quotes

“She remembers this phrase from his final months of law school, when he brought home the books on starting up a business. He'd read ravenously for several weeks and then predicted: "Well, darling, we're going to be rich." Now he slaps shut the last of his books and announces, with equal assurance: "We're all going to die.”
― Jacob Appel, Radiazione

“Richard Alther's Bedside Matters offers readers an insightful and moving end-of-life narrative in the spirit of Paul Harding's Tinkers and William Gaddis's Agapē Agape. Challenged by physical decline and family intrigue, Walter transcends his corporeal prison to find larger meaning in art, philosophy, and literature. A work of depth, carefully wrought with nuance and delicately wrapped in wisdom and humor, Bedside Matters serves up a worthy exploration of and an antidote to the shortcomings of our material age. — Jacob M. Appel, author of Millard Salter's Last Day.”
― Jacob Appel

“You delude yourself that you live in a free country because you never test the boundaries of that freedom.”
― Jacob Appel

“Few scenes draw spectators more quickly than a grown man antagonizing a mime.”
― Jacob Appel

“He’s too put together,” says Carreen. “I only date shipwrecks.”
― Jacob Appel, Fallout

“Then she hugs me. It is a raw, overcast day in mid-December - the sort of day when hugs always feel the most loving - and a light dusting of snow still blankets yards and hedges.”
― Jacob Appel