The Pursuit of Alice Thrift Quotes

“You’re a serious one, aren’t you?” I confirmed that I was and always would be: a serious infant, a serious child, a serious teenager, a serious student, a serious adult.”
― Elinor Lipman, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

“He won a free teeth-bleaching, upper and lower arches, in a dentist’s lottery. It explained his too-easy grin and his drinking coffee through a straw during what would later be classified as our first date.”
― Elinor Lipman, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

“Vanitas vanitatum: elective surgery, in other words.”
― Elinor Lipman, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift