Ghost Town Quotes

“That’s the dream, right? To look at yourself and be at peace with the person you were and the person you’ve become. The things you were stuck with and the things you got to choose. You can’t just erase the parts you don’t like or hide from the ones that scare you or make you feel ashamed.”
― Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town

“Maybe all that stuff catches up to you in the end, the demons you think you've outrun, the bad memories you locked away in a metal box, and then you hid the box in a dark corner of the basement under a heap of dirty blankets, and then you moved far away and did your best to pretend you were someone else. But the box is always right there, right where you left it.”
― Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town

“What’s wrong with the Dead? Eddie asked. “Casey Jones” is a cool song. That one’s okay, Leonard agreed, a little grudgingly. But don’t give me any of that “Uncle John’s Band” crap. And don’t ask me to paint my face, either. You ever watch those fuckers dance? It’s like they never even saw their own hands before. That’s ’cause they’re tripping, Eddie said. Bullshit. I’ve taken tons of acid and I never danced like an asshole. Leonard shook his head like he’d just received some sad news. You know what? I’d rather listen to _______ music than the Grateful Dead. Gimme Sly and the Family Stone any day. Eddie nodded, happy to find some common ground.”
― Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town

“It wasn’t even nine o’clock when they got to the beach, and there were only a handful of people camped out on the vast stretch of sand between the boardwalk and the ocean. The lifeguard chairs were deserted, and the rides on Casino Pier—the Jet Star and the Zipper and the Scrambler and the Ferris wheel and all the rest—were completely still, like a life-sized postcard. In a few hours, Seaside would be wall-to-wall bodies and Frisbees and blaring radios, but right then it was just foaming whitecaps and shrieking gulls, light-blue sky and glittering dark-blue water.”
― Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town