Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Walter broke off a piece of a smile and tucked it into his left cheek as if reserving it for future use.”
“Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.”
“Her hair was a glory of tendrils for the snaring of husbands.”
“The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass to the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.”
“You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.”
“The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.”
“Do what you gotta do and stay fly”
“It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.”
“He reached up and out with both arms to shoot his cuffs, and for an instant he might have served to illustrate the crucial step in a manual on the seizing of days. He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again.”
“Combing her thoughts, yanking them into a pigtail.”
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