Quotes by : Jennifer Egan

I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.....

But Bennie knew that what he was bringing into the world was shit. Too clear, too clean. The problem....

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.

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

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

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

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented....

I would lie of course. I lied a lot and with good reason: to protect the truth—safeguard it like wearing....

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

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.