Scott Lasser > Quotes

“Dearborn, the home of Ford and Arabic street signs. Not many brothers out there, which, of course, had always been old man Ford’s design. Keeping Arabs out had probably never occurred to him.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit: A Novel

“Most people considered options a good thing, the American way, but one tended to squander those choices, or to choose badly, and then to call a bad outcome fate, as if the choices made had nothing to do with it.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit

“He wondered what ever had made him go into this business. He couldn’t remember, exactly. He’d always been a good student, able to write papers and take tests, at the top of his class. What worried him were his abilities in the real world. Perhaps he’d settled on law because it seemed the career that was most like school.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit: A Novel