“It was rainy, trees leafing out, spring deepening into summer; and the forlorn cry of horns on the street, the dank smell of the wet pavement had an electricity about it, a sense of crowds and static, lonely secretaries and fat guys with bags of carry-out, everywhere the ungainly sadness of creatures pushing and struggling to live.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.”
― Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
― Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“To the world’s most perfect woman.’ It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.”
― The Rosie Effect
― The Rosie Effect
“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.”
― The End of Everything
― The End of Everything
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