Slot Machine Fever Dreams Quotes

“You know how fragile happiness is: it’s that skim of ice on the pond that can be cracked by the smallest of falling branches.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams

“There’s a reason that among your tattoos is one on your left arm that reads “A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams

“But I do come from a pair of serious obsessives. If they liked something . . . they liked it a lot.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams

“I’m still not sure I believe in love at first sight,” he’s saying. “Wait, strike that. It wasn’t love at first sight. Maybe love at second sight? Or third?” “You don’t know if this is love or madness.” “I think it was when we were with Medusa. Slot machine fever dreams.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams

“So is he. He’s waiting too. The world—your world—has hit pause. You look into those boyish freckles of his and ask, “How do we end this?”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams

“Nessa shrugs, carefully pocketing the chip in her shirt. You see her pat her chest, making sure it’s there, that—like so much else in this city—it didn’t disappear like mist in the morning.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams

“You don’t have a type. But this one? A loser who’s winning? There’s more to him, you can sense it, and you feel the tug of the magnet inside you.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Slot Machine Fever Dreams