Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad Quotes
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.
I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.
When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?
I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.
A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?
Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.
I don't know what happened to me, " he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.
So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
