Next to Heaven Quotes

“Katy and David weren’t dating. They were in the Curiosity Stage. Lots of flirting. Touching of the arm. Laughing. Sometimes he walked her home and their hands would brush. It was electric.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“I had installed a steel door in our bedroom so it could be a safe room if I ever needed one, if we were getting robbed, or the SEC showed up.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“Thanksgiving. America’s favorite Thursday. We gather with our families. We pretend we love bad, boring food. We celebrate our abundance. We watch football. We get drunk. Sometimes there are fights. Everybody takes a nap. Go Team America. Rock on.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“They are a tribe. Not bound by religion or race or geographical location, but by money and power. Like any tribe, they help each other, and watch out for each other, protect each other. Their tribe does not have a name, for it does not need a name, and to name it would be to diminish it. And like the members of any tribe, they recognize each other,”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“Days moved slowly and years moved quickly. And she woke up one day and she was in her forties. Time doesn’t fly, it vanishes, like mist in the morning, summer flowers, dreams.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“If you want to actually look or contemplate art, you don’t go see the paintings on opening night. Openings are some combination of cocktail party, fashion show, and peacock’s parade.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“Despite their advantages, rich people were rarely ever cool, though they spent huge amounts of money trying to achieve it. And cool people were rarely rich because they were lazy, and part of being cool is not giving a fuck.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“He would use mathematics and his gifts in understanding and manipulating it, to build an empire, to become a King, or as close to a King as you could in America, which is a Billionaire.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“Billy understood that math was the governing language of the universe.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven

“Devon often dreamed of punching her husband in the face.”
― James Frey, Next To Heaven