All Jennifer Egan Quotes
- Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone? Belong
- When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened? Decides
- Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. Hairball
- I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person… Actually Real
- A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread… Abnormal
- Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; Clean
- But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. Another Girl
- I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless… Closely
- I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other… All
- They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I… Ache
- Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving… Barber
- Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you. E Mailing
- and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking, All
- and the question is, which one is really “you, Funny
- That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet. Funny
- The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist,… Absent
- reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous. Anymore
- What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it. Fifty
- a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff Appreciation
- And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. Alex