Lucas Schaefer > Quotes

“Nothing’s ever as dead as it seems.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“lanugo.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“You just have to find a way to harness your anger, you know? Find that anger and put it in your fists, in your feet… No one in this world knows what you are capable of but you.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“Jesse bemoaned the plight of Jesse and it was X’s job to confirm it was, indeed, a plight.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“Texas? We were skeptical. But we fell in love with Austin.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“No bigger grift in America than nostalgia: convincing people who didn’t have it good yesterday to be grateful because tomorrow would be worse.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“that in this world, he versus she wasn’t just semantics or biology, plugs versus jacks, but how far you could go and how big you could dream.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“It was not a tragedy, compared to all the other tragedies out there, that the life he’d worked for didn’t end up his life. It was not a tragedy: it was life.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel

“the outside embellishments prompting complaints from her neighbors, a fussy collection of former gated-community doyennes and HOA scolds.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel