89 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“And she learned that you couldn’t stockpile anything that mattered, really. Feelings, people, songs, sex, fireworks: they existed only in time, and when it was over, so were they.”
“You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.”
“It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.”
“Who didn’t exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?”
“And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.”
“America isn’t that far from totalitarianism.”
“And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me?”
“There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for m...”
“This isn’t Soviet Russia. This is America we’re talking about. For God’s sake, this is New York City.”
