Quotes by : Jennifer Egan

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one....

Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure....

She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame....

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out....

He's rigged a tiny cassette player with a small set of foam earphones to listen to demo tapes and rough....

...underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe;....

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called....

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

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