“Look here, you’re a nice chap- I don’t mind your knowing. Don’t tell, but it’s all a pretend. This car doesn’t belong to me at all, and I don’t know how to drive it. They put me here just to make people look, and then they hope they’ll buy the car.”
“And it’d be our own, an’ nobody could can us. . . . An’ if a fren’ come along, why we’d have an extra bunk, an’ we’d say, ‘Why don’t you spen’ the night?′ An’ . . . he would.”
“This boat that we just built is just fine—
And don’t try to tell us it’s not.
The sides and the back are divine—
It’s the bottom I guess we forgot. . . .”
“The novel is about a woman named August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, who finds love in a woman she meets on a subway named Jane Su, a punk Lesbian from the 1970s who has been misplaced in time and is trapped on the subway.”
“Life as a happy handsome city mouse ends abruptly for Timothy when he looks into the mirror one morning and sees `a strange creature dressed in black staring at him.″
“Nothing I have written or done has made any difference in this world, and suddenly I know what it means to rage, and to crave.
I read the whole poem and eat it up, drink it up.”
“On the other hand, he lures Niklas into a trap and testifies to the police for Karl and thus against Niklas. It is implied in the novel that Rocky is forced to do these things by Karl. Rocky is characterized as a follower.”