Girl Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter’s treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

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Lunch

Years

Jennifer Egan

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Cities

Girl

Keys

Jennifer Egan

He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They’d been in Lou’s house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol’s famous face and thought, You’re finished. Nostalgia was the end – everyone knew that.

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Idols

Rocks

Jennifer Egan

I don’t think that all girls seek the influence of older men, but I think girls whose fathers are absent or recessed from their lives often do. And honestly, when I was growing up, fathers were generally pretty absent from their children’s lives. We didn’t see a lot of them. That may be something that has genuinely changed for the better in our culture: men are more present for their children now that more women are working.

Children

Girl

Growing Up

Jennifer Egan

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for.

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Stories

Waiting

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Appreciation

Artist

Assistants

Average

Bad Day

Believe

Biceps

Block

Blue

Book

Care

Cause And Effect

Causes

Character

Children

Circles

Cities

Clean

Combination

Conquer The World

Core

Crushed

Degrees

Differences

Different

Doe

Effort

Eye

Fake

Fall

Falling In Love

Fantasy

Feelings

Fifty

Firsts

Forever

Forget

Form

Girl

Glasses

Gone

Goons

Gratitude

Growing Up

Guessing

Hair

Happened

Heart

Home

Hurt

Ideas

Idiot

Idols

Imagination

Inspiration

Intellectual

Interesting

Jobs

Keys

Kids

Kissing

Laughing

Light

Lines

Listen To Me

Looks

Losing

Lost

Lunch

May

Mean

Men

Metaphor

Mines

Mom

Mother

Moving

Needs

New York

Normal

Nourishment

Numbers

Pain

Party

People

Perfection

Plans

Poppies

Powerful

Problem

Property

Proust

Reading

Real

Realizing

Redemption

Results

Rocks

Rooms

Said

School

Scotty

Self

Shitheads

Simultaneous

Skins

Snob

Sometimes

Song

Sorry

Sound

Squad

Stars

Stories

Strange

Strong

Stuff

Sun

Sweet

Talking

Tattoo

Technology

Teenage

Teeth

Thinking

Thoughtful

Time

Tired

Together

Training

Transformation

Trouble

Trying

Two

Views

Waiting

Wall

Want

War

Water

Way

Women

Work Out

World

Worry

Worst

Would Be

Writing

Years

Girl Quotes by Jennifer Egan

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for.

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