66 Quotes by Charles Baxter

I have to let her remain here if she wants to. She's wreckage. It's as simple as that. We have these obligations to our human ruins.

Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)

There is no weather in malls.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Everybody should customize their names.

it helps that in michigan everyone goes inside from november through april. but from may until october they are outside, on display, and all of a sudden if you are single, you have a window to heaven and no way at all to get in.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.