Jumbo Quotes

“Now I'm going out to dinner with my parents."
"Your parents?"
"Yeah. They really do exist."
"It's eight-thirty."
"Yeah, well if you're rich and pretentious you're supposed to eat late. It's one of the rules."
"Doesn't that become tiresome?"
"Inordinately.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo

“It was written in a red felt marker, and his first thought was that it was from Sarah, though it didn't look like a girl's writing. A girl would make it pretty, with kisses and smiley faces, and she would do it in colored pens and make an envelope as well.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo

“Somewhere forward, somewhere in the future, the summer was locked in the snow. Waiting. More a promise, more a dream, than anything you could really believe in.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo

“Is it okay if I wear my clothes?"
"Your clothes?"
"Yeah. I'm going to take my sweater off, and open my jeans - but I'd like to do it just like that. I'll leave my socks on."
In all Mitchell's imaginations of being fucked, no one had ever had clothes on.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo

“Tadd nodded. "I'm the fly specialist."
"You collect them?" Jake said.
"No. I mean butterfly. Swimming.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo

“Hell, Mitchell thought. He really figured everyone was gay when it came right down to it.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo

“Mitchell had heard somewhere that people didn't stop growing until they were twenty-one. Was Tadd going to end up with a cock that hung to his knees? Mitchell smiled. That certainly couldn't happen.”
― Todd Young, Jumbo