46 quotes found
“Ive officially turned into a loser, she whispered cynically. Im looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. Ive ha...”
“Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why ...”
“Dont you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world? asked Connor irrele...”
“Really, nobody was there? I asked.Well, nobody important, he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”
“Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard? asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes ...”
“Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.”
“On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.”
“... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”
“There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.”
“Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a l...”
“Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.”
“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities mo...”
“That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the streets burn.”
“I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?"He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that."Fellas have all the fun 'n she just sees one right after another, so...”
“I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.”
“Big cities can have big hearts.”
“His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. "I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.”
“"You ever been arrested before?""No sir. This is my first time.""The first time this week, you mean.""Oh, I been arrested in Michigan. I thought you meant in Illinois. I never been arrested in Illi...”
“He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She stopped breathing as he leaned downohmigod, the Adonis was about to kiss herand planted ...”
“McDonald, who was known to hate policemen, was once approached by two cops for a two-dollar donation. Were burying a policeman, one of them said, to which Mike responded, Heres ten dollars. Bury fi...”
