Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well. — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess I was… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again.” — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“-Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy? -No, definitely not, sir. -Well, you can't stay here forever now, can you? -Why not? I'm not bothering anybody, sir. -Because it's not healthy. You're a very special young man, Billy. It's time you found that out on your own, out there. The world may not be as terrible as… — Joe Meno Copy Share
“The more you like a girl, the less she likes you. It’s like fucking scientific.” “What about you and Kim?” “That’s what I’m talking about, little dude. If I start being nice and acting cool and saying things and being on time, she starts acting, you know, fucking uninterested. But if I act like a total dick, then she calls… — Joe Meno Copy Share
“Jack: Well, I've never been to New York, but I hear it's for assholes. Odile: It's not. Jack: Well, that's what I heard. Cool… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything. — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
