The best Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

The best Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

You can't be deep without a surface.

You Don't Love Me Yet

1

'I want what we all want,' said Carl. 'To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.'

You Don't Love Me Yet

1

Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.

You Don't Love Me Yet

1

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

You Don't Love Me Yet

1

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

Motherless Brooklyn

1

How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun.

Motherless Brooklyn

1

You might like these Quotes aswell

Power is knowing that you can do whatever you want, and not one person can stop you.

Moses Randolph in Motherless Brooklyn

When someone isn’t seen for what they truly are, that’s a very dangerous thing.

Paul Randolph in Motherless Brooklyn

2

Okay, listen. I got something wrong with me. That’s the first thing to know. I twitch and shout a lot. It makes me look like a damn freak show. But inside my head is an even bigger mess. I can’t stop twisting things around, words and sounds especially. I have to keep playing with them until they come out right.

Lionel Essrog in Motherless Brooklyn

He’s the one who taught me how to use my head, turn it into a strength. He gave me a place in this crappy world, until I screwed up.

Lionel Essrog in Motherless Brooklyn

Maine - you can spit on Canada from here!

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

Related pages to Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

You Don't Love Me Yet

The best Book Quotes

Book-Quotes