Best Joshua Ferris Quotes
- She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all… Affirming
- We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when… Business
- We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on… Almost Nothing
- If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what… Bleak
- We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen. Fifteen
- A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge… Altered
- We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. Character
- Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays… Day
- We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction… Along
- It is really irritating to work with irritating people Inspirational
- All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone elses poor decision making. All