The Havana Room Quotes

“The city's children were traumatized enough by the World Trade Center attack. They don't need to see all the panhandlers with seeping sores, the crazies and subway shitters. You hope to keep them segregated and supervised. Not loitering or dwaddling or drifting, because to linger long the path home is to invite bad possibilities. The child snatcher, the pervert, the mob of taunting adolescence wielding box cutters. In Manhattan all monsters are proximate, it's not by geography, then by imagination.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room

“She was ready for him and didn't mind if anyone knew it. They were desperate, I could see, in their own ways, but desperate people have a way of matching frequencies and finding each other before the end comes.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room

“If you live long enough in New York City, there are places you avoid.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room