City Beasts Quotes

“No one ever escapes Gloucester. Kids go off to college and settle somewhere else. But they always come back. If Gloucester is all you know, every place else seems a little phony.”
― Mark Kurlansky, City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife

“Segundo’s best friend Silvio traded appliances for clothes, designer clothes—well, not really, but he thought they were—Chinese-made Armani suits and Italian silk shirts from Vietnam, all with designer labels occasionally misspelled. As in the “Versache” pants.”
― Mark Kurlansky, City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife