Kevin Canty > Quotes

“It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.”
― Kevin Canty, Into the Great Wide Open

“Also: people pretended not to want what they wanted. Pretending tried to hide the will. That was the secret of adult life, the undisclosed motor of the whole thing. People wanted what they wanted. They did what they could to get it. It wasn't complicated. Kenny knew that was the last step he needed to take before he could be an adult: he had to learn what he wanted, then had to learn to want what he wanted.”
― Kevin Canty, Into the Great Wide Open

“I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.”
― Kevin Canty, Into the Great Wide Open

“The central thing that Winslow could remember from this tme was the feeling of satisfaction he had, all the ride down with Carole King for company. As far as he could take it. As far as he could go. Something at least would happen next and this part would be over. He could feel the same movement starting up inside him, the same gathering wave, and wondered where it would leave him this time. Nothing to do, though. Nothing to do but wait and see.”
― Kevin Canty, Winslow in Love

“I don’t think I’m any worse than anybody else, I’m sure of it, in fact.”
― Kevin Canty, Where the Money Went

“A MARRIAGE, ANY MARRIAGE but your Own, is one thing you will never know.”
― Kevin Canty, Where the Money Went

“One for the wheelchair, and one for the tank; one for insurance, and one for the bank; one lived in the TV, bitching and whining; one slept in the hall light, constantly shining.”
― Kevin Canty, A Stranger in this World

“I never know what to do with a crying woman. I never seem to meet any other kind.”
― Kevin Canty, Where the Money Went

“They're not people at all, they're graduate students, there's a difference. They fuck like bunnies and drink like fish and stay up late worrying that somebody somewhere is getting something that they're not getting." - Erika Jones”
― Kevin Canty, Winslow in Love

“The cold, indifferent beauty of this place seems like a memory of everything he hasn’t done.”
― Kevin Canty, A Stranger in this World

“This was a feeling that I had sometimes in the woods, a feeling that I was rich, things that I saw and things that I touched that money couldn’t buy: the larch trees turning gold in the fall, the taste of a wild strawberry.”
― Kevin Canty, Where the Money Went