Your Name Here Quotes

“You're not the kind of girl who'd be in a place like this at a time like this. Not the kind of girl who'd sit next to a guy who's the kind of guy who'd be in Bright Lights, Big City II and be so [spaced out/coked up/polypharmaceutically prepositioned/ (Add/delete as appropriate)] that he thinks he's the kind of guy who'd be in a pastiche of Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler. It was pre-assigned seating.”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“It’s not against Lottery regulations to lose, obviously - somebody’s got to - but it’s against the Rules to be seen to lose. It’s against the Rules to be seen to win. It’s not just that you break the Rules by sitting there. It’s that you put everyone else in the position of ostentatious Rulebreakers, manoeuvred into flashing their luck just by walking to work.”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You’re still reading Your Name Here”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“The book is fucked.”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You’d seen people reading Your Name Here”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“Maybe this is not the best book to be reading. A self-referential book that raises metaphysical questions as a pretext for talking about itself”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“In other words”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You’re on page 475 and you still have no idea what’s going on. Zozanian has embarked on a book with your character”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You’re the star and you still have no idea where this is going. What’s going on? What’s it about? Do you want to know the answer to this question?”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You’re up to page 291 of Your Name Here”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You’re reading Your Name Here”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“It’s not that I think children should be seen and not heard. Why stop at children? How many adults generate utterances equivalent to the paragraph of Spinoza one could have read in the time taken up by the utterance? Chances”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“You got an aisle seat”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here

“Much of looking sane amounts to being predictable for the unimaginative. Bad news.”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here