54 quotes found
“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”
“Always live your life with your biography in mind.”
“How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.”
“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”
“The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. Theyd probably stay that way unless ...”
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”
“Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's stillbanging Charles after all these years ""Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.”
“It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistant, Aurelia Feinstein, age 34-though let me state for the record it was not as hot as it sounded. ...”
“Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.""Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.”
“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velsquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the l...”
“And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus t...”
“Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.”
“When it was daylight, we'd been sitting on a stoop watching the street get light. She mentioned the light took eight minutes to leave the sun and reach us. You couldn't help but love that light tra...”
“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had somehow set him free. And he'd let it fly, that gorgeous blackbird of a...”
“There it is, hed say reverentially. The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lan...”
“she was flighty and poor, a French studies major who quoted Simone de Beauvoir. She wiped her runny nose on her coat sleeve when it was snowing, stuck her head out of car windows the way dogs do, t...”
“Im not afraid of total failure. In the end, were all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?”
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for." Banks tells me. "But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existenc...”
“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even ...”
“Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coatgraceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped overshe was nevertheless one of those people whose personality proved...”
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.”
