15 quotes found
“It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.”
“a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.”
“He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t we all?”
“There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.”
“The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.”
“But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.”
“Years later, in a high-school biology class, Samuel heard a story about a certain kind of African turtle that swam across the ocean to lay its eggs in South America. Scientists could find no reason...”
“When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.”
“They were coming back to his mother's neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper.”
“I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.”
“You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I'm talking about when I was young, in the sixties? Back then we knew there was a soullessness to the sellouts, an...”
“She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.”
“What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets.”
“A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?”
“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.”
