The Clasp Quotes

“The last thing we wanted to do was offend you."
"The last thing you wanted was for me to take offense.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“People who just had sex had an annoying habit of assuming everyone around them had just had sex. Which was also, coincidentally, what people who were not having sex assumed.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“Los Angeles had its faults, metaphorical and geophysical, but it was not a malicious place. People were nice here. Hollywood was the grade school teacher who started you off with an “A” until you failed. New York was the one who gave you an “F” until you proved you deserved better.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“The island was a splotch on the map, as if the globe had started to get a tattoo but changed its mind.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“Caroline and Felix's love had blossomed during a corporate banking retreat, which seemed to Victor like the least fertile place for love. Shows what he knew.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“She dropped her hands, keeping her place in the book. ¶ 'Do you hear it?' she asked rhetorically. 'Do you hear it?' ¶ Victor made eye contact with Nathaniel. The professor raised the book once more, this time shouting like a finalist at a poetry slam.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“Claude handed her the bag. "Madeline, you seem interested in jewelry."
"I am," she said.
Was this not obvious? Why else would she be standing here?
"In which case, you should consider a career in jewelry.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“He really did love her. It was a relaxing love, a love in his blood that was nowhere and everywhere at once.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“Were they making the Kool-Aid in breathable form these days?”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“Americans love that, no? To think of jewelry as a dead thing. This is why you keep the Hope Diamond next to your dinosaur bones.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

“I need new ones of these.” Victor pushed his glasses up the Sisyphean slope of his nose.”
― Sloane Crosley, The Clasp