Status Updates From Mr. Vertigo

“I’m ready, boss. You bet your boots I’m ready. Just rig up a place for me to do it, and I’m your boy till death do us part.”

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 114). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"I felt as if I had seen the sun explode. I felt as if I had just witnessed the end of the world."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 96). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“Why didn’t you tell me this before?”

“Because you wouldn’t have believed me before. That’s why I’m telling you now. Because the time is coming. If you listen to what the master tells you, it’s coming sooner than you think.”

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 48). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"It was the Ache of Being, he said, and it was bound to strike me down sooner or later."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 34). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"He convinced me that I couldn’t go home, and once I accepted that, I didn’t give a damn about myself anymore."

Auster, Paul. Mr. Vertigo (p. 6). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.