The Akron Anthology Quotes

“If history has taught Akron anything, it’s that success guarantees nothing and the well of good fortune can run dry at any moment. Growing up surrounded by so many boarded-up factories and storefronts gives Akronites an inherent humility. A whiff of mortality.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology

“I’m almost forty, and I’ve been living off the assumption that I’m still fifteen years old. I don’t think much has changed. I just did something that finally worked...and I got fatter.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology

“Don’t we have nets somewhere?” I asked Donald. “Don’t think so,” he said. “We should check the Shelf of Random Ass Things,” I said. “I love the Shelf of Random Ass Things,” Donald said.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology

“What I like about Akron is that it is cool, but not too cool. We are cool enough to have street festivals all summer long, but not cool enough to have a disruptively huge music festival like South by Southwest that all the locals loathe. We are cool enough to attract young professionals and artists, but not cool enough to entice detrimental gentrification complete with skyrocketing rent prices.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology

“Everyone thinks about before. Before the plants closed, before the people left, before the university started the world’s first corrosion engineering institute. We have plenty of rust around to study.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology

“I find that a lot of photographers see Ohio as an endless sea of dead malls and salt-crusted cars on fire in front of rusted-out steel plants. It’s more than that.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology

“There’d better be a blimp in here. Seriously: if there is not a blimp in this book, I’m going to return it to the library I stole it from.”
― Jason Segedy, The Akron Anthology