The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Rochelle went silent again. It was interesting, I thought. I resolved to be more like this, myself: not to speak until I was ready. Obviously, people waited for you.”
“That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.”
“After the accident he lacked a sense of fully inhabiting his own life, as if he were still, somehow, tumbling through that tumbling air…He wasn’t in despair, he was just tumbling, perpetually tumbling, relentlessly tumbling at the mercy of that terrible weightlessness and the betrayal of gravity…He was there, but he was always in that other place, the tumbling place, the place he was used to now.”
“people with different ideas from one’s own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one’s mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?”
“When the world is tipping beneath you and you are tumbling even when you are sitting, even when you are sleeping (especially when you are sleeping), any place is the same as any other place.”
“This was the flaw in making a bargain with yourself. There is no one else there to agree to the terms.”
“She was not yet enough of a New Yorker to recognize the significance of some of Salo’s touchstones: Collegiate, the weekend house on the shore in Rye, the summer camp long associated with Jewish families of a certain financial stratum, and above all the Oppenheimer apartment on Fifth Avenue, in a 1915 limestone co-op that had once been resolutely off-limits to Jewish people, no matter how much money they had. This”
“Or we of the tribe who delude ourselves into thinking the Orioles will one day win the World Series!”
“It means: I bow to the divine light within you and you bow to the divine light within me.”
“In my yoga class,” she said, “my favorite part is always the namaste, which comes at the end.” And there, she laughed at herself. “As those of us who do yoga know, we love namaste because it comes at the end!” (Much nodding and grinned approval in the congregation of affluent Brooklynites.) “But what does namaste actually mean? It means: I bow to the divine light within you and you bow to the divine light within me. Now I know yoga is not a religion, though we’ve all met practitioners we might describe as fanatics. But this little insight contains a great profundity: all of us, bringing our little lights together to form what the apostles of Jesus might have called ‘the light of the world.’ This”
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