As She Climbed Across the Table Quotes

“My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“The speaker was stringy and angular, his blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, his plaid workman's shirtsleeves rolled up around his pale biceps. Journalism major, I guessed.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“I gained an insight, a purloined-letter kind of thing.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“I argue against depth wherever I find it.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

“We admit the presence of no author, no oeuvre, and no genre. The text stands bare. . . . We admit nothing outside of the text.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table