361 Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Problems he couldn’t solve made him angry.

I felt more doubtful than usual with ‘Goon Squad,’ because I knew that the book’s genre wasn’t easily named – Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? – and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

I think, The world is actually huge. That’s the part no one can really explain.

And Danny got it: she was playing herself. A character: He liked these types because they pretty much told you what reactions they wanted you to have, and they liked Danny because he went ahead and had them.

Let me tell you something, dearie: the world is a closed door to an unwed mother and her illegitimate child. If.

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

This is the music business. ‘Five years is five hundred years’ – your words.

And see those metaphors ‘up front’ and ‘out in the open’ are part of a system we call atavistic purism. AP implies the existence of an ethically perfect state which not only doesn’t exist and never existed but it’s usually used to shore up the prejudices of whoever’s making the judgments.

She’d risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.