Lake Success Quotes
"It wasn’t America that needed to be made great again, it was her listless citizens."
"Nobody cared about his black Amex and nobody cared about Sean’s bleeding face and nobody cared that his son was severely autistic."
"The whole idea of marriage now seemed insane."
"It required imagination. It required a soul."
"The immensity of the land was too big for any of these concerns."
"He had to get off the bus. He would take a little breather here before continuing on to Richmond."
"The sky above Barry was endless. There was an intense clarity to everything, as if he were surrounded by holy truth."
"Here was this twenty-eight-pound kid, surrounded by three lovely smiling women, bouncing in the air."
"The classical, almost Venetian proportions of the park were dwarfed by their own tower and a similar glass pile going up next door, but this was New York, not Paris."
"All these thoughts. How to stop them? Would one cigarette, something slutty and mentholated, really kill her second baby boy?"
"You could close your eyes and he’d cover half the floor-sized apartment in one tormented screech."
"What if the immensity of her task pleased her? What if she was like him, except, instead of four monitors blasting the Hang Seng and the Baltic Dry Index, she needed this challenge to feel like she mattered?"
"Jesus Christ. All these thoughts. How to stop them?"
"The feel of her mother’s folio against her bare knees calmed her."
"Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?"
"Shiva ran across the apartment faster than Novie."
"His gross motor skills were apparently as good as Shiva’s."
"When things are tough with my family, I like to watch Trump, because he just takes my mind off stuff. No matter what happens personally, there’s this much greater disaster taking place."
"You’re smart. You’re basically decent. You’re kind when you want to be. But that’s not enough for a life."
"You tried to make a friend who turned out to be a bad person. And when he fell, you stood by him."
"We’re not going to cure cancer, we’re not going to save the world. We’re going to deliver value to investors like you."
"This is what I’m talking about. Real self-improvement. A vocation and an avocation."
"How confident they sounded. This was their city and their world."
"Nearly thirty years of life and she still had only one true friend in the world."
"The greatest blessing out of all this, no prenup."
"Shiva’s not a blessing. Shiva is the reason I live and breathe."
"Cooking took hours and involved seemingly every implement ever devised."
"How did families without such food stay together?"
"He probably understood those journals better than she could at this point."
"Biological, spiritual, no explanation sufficed."
"The bizarre love parents had for their children."
"I missed you. Why didn’t you tell me about your knee?"
"I have something to tell you. It’s about Shiva."
"This election will never be over! Can’t you see that?"
"Do you know what a burden it is to be the object of someone’s fantasy?"
"He’s just stitching together a version of me in his head."
"Maybe I get to be by myself, doing my thing."
"The mountains would wait patiently no matter who or what."
"The beauty around the Greyhound continued undiminished."
"Our country was so much more than the people who inhabited it."
"The kindness and concern were coming at him in waves."
"The secret inside him had not made him a good man."
"As soon as Barry’s hands were placed under Shiva’s armpits, the boy began to kick backward and flap his arms forward like some maddened dolphin."
"Barry loving the feel of Seema’s hands on his own, until equilibrium was restored."
"This family felt as lonely as the one he had known in Queens after his mother died."
"Barry quickly turned to look at the lifeguard, to see if he had registered that his son was different."
"Barry’s shoulders were starting to cramp some; how did Seema and Novie take care of this big boy all day long?"
"The room smelled of salt water, clean and pure, and, if he leaned toward Seema, some of her honeyed essence."
"The unnatural hollow sound of Shiva’s head smashing against the tile rang through both Seema and Barry."
"Maybe, in her own way, she had tried to tip the scales when she sent the Sardinia video to the government."
"We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win."
"You’re not Shiva. You don’t have his excuses."
"Barry stood there, his arms still outstretched as if they contained a Shiva within them."
"Barry was adding zero value to the proceedings."
"You’re a man who makes tons of money while the world goes to shit around you."
"Barry knew he was good at making and losing money and getting paid for both handsomely."
"Barry could fix them. Barry could fix his son’s watch."
"He had given life with his fingers and his memory."
"And the Bird Daddy watched over all of it, satisfied with the remains of the world."