“ She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten uphol… Jennifer Egan
“ The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END.… Jennifer Egan
“ Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he… Jennifer Egan
“ Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself. Jennifer Egan
“ And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two gener… Jennifer Egan
“ 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, mu… Jennifer Egan
“ I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together, a… Jennifer Egan
“ Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time. Jennifer Egan
“ I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex. Jennifer Egan
“ Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won. Jennifer Egan
“ 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 a… Jennifer Egan
“ So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. Jennifer Egan
“ That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to. Jennifer Egan
“ 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? Jennifer Egan
