A.C. Greene > Quotes

“It’s almost impossible to save, really save, anything. If she didn’t have her trust fund, small though it is, well, they might be peering over the edge the way some couples their age were. Thank God for that quarterly check. And thank God for Daddy, even if he was a lush and spent more nights in bed with prostitutes than with mother. According to mother.”
― A.C. Greene , The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories

“Dallas is small enough: Highland Park is like living in a retirement home when it comes to knowing what everyone is doing.”
― A.C. Greene, The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories

“What else? Well, she belongs to a book review club, one her mother helped start, that meets once a month in some Highland Park home. If it’s a particularly interesting home, she’ll go.”
― A.C. Greene, The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories

“It's not really necessary: a ten-year-old son in St. Mark's and a seven-year-old daughter in Lamplighter, three bedrooms and three baths at one end of Beverly Drive, her station wagon, his Toronado.”
― A.C. Greene, The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories

“The sound of the surf came through the wide window and John finished his drink, dropped his cigarette butt in the glass, and said to her, “We’ve had dinner, we made love, we had a drink. What do we do now?”
― A.C. Greene, The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories