361 Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?

You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust!

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about NOT thinking about somebody (...).

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for. Usually the girl is fat, but my problem is more rare, which is freckles: I look like someone threw handfuls of mud at my face.

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.