Quotes by : Jennifer Egan

But Phoebe loved her mother best as she was now, wistful, out-of-step, her laugh tinged always with sadness,....

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn....

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something....

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked....

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so....

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that....

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when....

happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once.....

Sasha's green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. "In Naples," she said, "there....