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“But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving around on his scalp. Bennie felt himself grow faint.'Lice' the barber whispered.'They get it at school'. 'But he goes to private school' Bernie had blurted.'In Crandale,New York!”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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