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Jonathan Franzen quotes

American Novelist August 17, 1959

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Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation. Jonathan Franzen
There seemed to be almost nothing left of Lalitha; she was breaking up on him the way dead songbirds did in the wild-they were impossibly light to begin with, and as soon as their little hearts stopped beating they were barely more than bits of fluff and hollow bone, easily scatterd in the wind-but this only made him more determined to hold onto what little of her he still had. Jonathan Franzen
And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. Jonathan Franzen
He may not have been exactly what she wanted in a man, but he was unsurpassable in providing the rabid fandom which, at the time, she needed even more than romance. Jonathan Franzen
Yeah, well, we're all grieving in our own way, obviously. It's just I heard this crazy rumor about your having inherited twenty-two million dollars." He tried to meet her eyes, but she'd turned away, squeezing her thumbs, fists balled. "Crazy, huh? But getting back to this lunch, let's see, Mr. Aldren and whatever his name is, Tweedledum, they had steak, right? And Mr. Stoorhuys--" He snapped his fingers. "Rabbit. Half a rabbit, grilled. Or what do you call it? Braised. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their..."
Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake."
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to..."
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance Jonathan Franzen
The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by..."
The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie... Jonathan Franzen
everyone that day, and in the months that followed, that Patty’s greatest warming influence was on Walter himself. Now, instead of speeding by his neighbors in his angry Prius, he stopped to lower his window and say hello. On weekends, he brought Patty over to the patch of clear ice that the neighborhood kids maintained Jonathan Franzen
I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man. Jonathan Franzen
You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade. Jonathan Franzen
It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value... Jonathan Franzen

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