13 Quotes by Jack Getze

Daylight streamed in the hospital windows, warming my spirits. Only darkness had existed while being born: Never before had I personally witnessed the startling difference between night and day.

About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.

Maybe that’s what life was really about – trying to reclaim the safety and comfort you previously enjoyed inside a womb.

Emily’s fear of raising me – her panic at being a mother – lived in the air like an advancing lightning storm. I reminded myself how young she was, how scared. But I could only see her distress over my birth as a rejection. Her alarm was impossible not to take personally.