Quotes from Notes from the Midnight Driver

Jordan Sonnenblick ·  265 pages

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“There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver


“...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver


“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver


“We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver


“You’ll learn one day that real apologies don’t come with a BUT in the middle.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver



“I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver


“Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver


About the author

Jordan Sonnenblick
Born place: in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, The United States
Born date July 4, 1969
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