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.”
“...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.”
“Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.”
“We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.”
“You’ll learn one day that real apologies don’t come with a BUT in the middle.”
“I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.”
“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?”
“You always make me get so fuckin’ emotional. I’d get my ass beat if anyone saw me the way I am with you.”
“I’ve met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world.”
“Nate hated, really hated, being told he thought too much. Jason wasn’t the only one who said it: hippie-dippie types who romanticize the natural and the “intuitive” also prefer feeling to thought. But not thinking was a way of giving oneself license to be a dick.”
“I plaster my face to the glass. Who cares about germs when giant sparkly heart earrings are at stake?”
“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun. A smile, a gun, and a Brute get you the key to the city. —Al “Scarface” Capone, Interview, 1930”
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