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Manhattan Beach QUOTES

Manhattan Beach QUOTES

1 " Sie sehnte sich stattdessen nach dem Elan und der Zielstrebigkeit, die alle anderen Menschen in der Forty-second Street zu beflügeln schienen: Gruppen lachender Matrosen; Mädchen mit angelegten, eingesprühten Haaren; ältere Paare, die Damen im Pelz - alle eilten im Dämmerlicht dahin. Anna betrachtete sie forschend. Woher wussten sie, wohin es ging? "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

2 " Anna war manchmal versucht, den Drink anzunehmen - und sei es nur, um die Reaktionen der beiden zu testen. Ihre Rolle, die so fest etabliert war, dass die Ursprünge längst im Dunkeln lagen, bestand darin, allen Versuchungen ihres Umfelds zu widerstehen - ein braves Mädchen zu sein, und das in jeder Hinsicht. Die Tatsache, dass sie schon seit ihrem vierzehnten Lebensjahr nicht mehr der Ausbund von Tugend war, für den man sie hielt, hätte sie in Anwesenheit von Tante und Mutter leicht vergessen können. Aber sie vergaß es nie ganz. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

3 " Vielleicht bestand wahres Glück darin, nicht mehr um das Glück kämpfen zu müssen. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

4 " Du bist gesund, meinte er. Morgen sagst du mir, wohin ich dich bringen soll. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

5 " How do you know a gangster?” “Usually, the room goes a little quiet when he walks in. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

6 " Cheating is like a girl’s maidenhead. Doesn’t matter if she’s done it once or a hundred times; she’s ruined just the same. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

7 " since the Depression, we bankers have had the leisure and . . . solitude, you might say, to think about the future. The Civil War left us with a federal government. The Great War made us a creditor nation. As bankers, we must anticipate what changes this war will thrust upon us.”
[…] The old man leaned forward and took a long breath. “I see the rise of this country to a height no country has occupied, ever,” he said quietly. “Not the Romans. Not the Carolingians. Not Genghis Khan or the Tatars or Napoleon’s France. Hah! You’re all looking at me like I’ve one foot in the funny farm. How is that possible? you ask. Because our dominance won’t arise from subjugating peoples. We’ll emerge from this war victorious and unscathed, and become bankers to the world. We’ll export our dreams, our language, our culture, our way of life. And it will prove irresistible. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

8 " Each time Anna moved from her father’s world to her mother and Lydia’s, she felt as if she’d shaken free of one life for a deeper one. And when she returned to her father, holding his hand as they ventured out into the city, it was her mother and Lydia she shook off, often forgetting them completely. Back and forth she went, deeper—deeper still—until it seemed there was no place further down she could go. But somehow there always was. She had never reached the bottom. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

9 " Eddie had never noticed how much of his own speech derived from the sea, from “keeled over” to “learning the ropes” to “catching the drift” to “freeloader” to “gripe” to “brace up” to “taken aback” to “leeway” to “low profile” to “the bitter end,” or the very last link on a chain. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

10 " The best possible outcome of marriage was a wealthy, childless widowhood. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

11 " Men said “Girls are weak” when in fact girls made them weak. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

12 " We’ll emerge from this war victorious and unscathed, and become bankers to the world. We’ll export our dreams, our language, our culture, our way of life. And it will prove irresistible. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

13 " You know the expression,” Eddie said. “ ‘Don’t write if you can talk, and don’t talk if you can nod.’ ” Styles was delighted. “A mick said that. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

14 " I like to be near water whenever possible, don’t you?” he said, gazing into the dark. “Melville put it best: ‘Nothing will content men but the extremest limit of the land’—but that’s not it, I can’t recall the quote. It’s in our nature to seek out the edge. Even on a golf course "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

15 " Their insularity made him envious—not just of the men but all three of them. They were working together, two men and a girl, with evident ease. Even after the diving suit was on and she no longer looked like a girl, he was resentful of their shared knowledge, their nomenclature and expertise. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

16 " he’d won by playing dirty—worse than losing. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

17 " He liked the thought that his own power would one day be refined into translucence, with no memory of the blood and earth that had generated it. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

18 " You know the expression,” Eddie said. “ ‘Don’t write if you can talk, and don’t talk if you can nod.’ ” Styles was delighted. “A mick said that.” Eddie winked. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

19 " It only hurts at first,” she said. “After a while you can’t feel anything.” Mr. Styles grinned as if her reply were a ball he’d taken physical pleasure in catching. “Words to live by,” he said, "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach

20 " She could feel the logic of mechanical parts in her fingertips; this came so naturally that she could only think that other people didn’t really try. "

― Jennifer Egan , Manhattan Beach