All Jennifer Egan Quotes
- 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
- He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints. Footprint
- Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters… Befallen
- ...real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you... Computer
- Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners… Acid
- some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished.… Arm
- He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house… Been
- if thr r childrn thr mst be a fUtr rt? Funny
- ...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. Black
- I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off… America
- Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now… Beginning
- Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us. Everyone
- At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a… Any
- The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead… Blue
- The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Life
- They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. Both
- Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone. Almost Gone
- It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth. Bad
- She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be. Inspirational
- And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the… Aflame
- She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. Core