Car Bombs to Cookie Tables Quotes

“The Rust Belt isn’t the East Coast. The Rust Belt built the East Coast.”
― Jacqueline Marino, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology

“And it was going so well until the other day Fortune Magazine christened Cleveland the new Brooklyn.”
― Jacqueline Marino, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology

“Today’s hipsters would probably find riding a carousel ironic and retro. These words were not in my 16-year-old vocabulary.”
― Jacqueline Marino, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology

“Not even Dante, said Miller to a friend, had imagined such an inferno.”
― Jacqueline Marino, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology

“Youngstown—the place where, you know, we were told, people got killed.”
― Jacqueline Marino, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology

“Industry built the city, and industry buried it. This became Youngstown’s dominant narrative.”
― Jacqueline Marino, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology