Plays Well with Others Quotes

“The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.”
― Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others

“We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia”
― Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others

“Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived of one hidden small iron clapper, its sole reason for being, its single means of song.”
― Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others

“The visit has commenced. The box step, three-quarter waltz time. No fast moves or sudden stops.”
― Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others

“Lord-Express have mercy on our stop-making, stuttering local. Place me expressly beyond these stares, past such terrible embarrassment. I say I do not feel it. I feel it. Credit me at least for trying to help my others. Let me trust your blueprint even though you’re really succch a bad designer. Let me know how best to clean up after people other people do not want … Let Ninety-sixth Street happen soooooon! Say my friends are at least as safe as they are dead. And since You’ve done all this to them, could You please just let them go now? Just leave my boys the fuck alone.”
― Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others