361 Quotes by Jennifer Egan

A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

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, or even a few bars to bring it back.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.