Rust Belt Chicago Quotes

“Whenever I told some guy from Bridgeport where I lived, I had to pretend I didn’t notice the “of course you do” hovering silently on the tip of his tongue.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

“You want everyone on the block to know you as “That Jimmy, good fella. Salt of the earth, give you the shirt off his fuckin’ back, and never ask for anything in return. That’s a good guy right there.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

“Both teams had rosters of interchangeable millionaires — but the Chicago papers that day had told stories of cash-strapped Clevelanders selling their tickets to wealthy out-of-towners and as the cameras cut to Bill Murray, John Cusack, all the Chicago lovers cheering and clapping in the stands in Cleveland — the game got to me.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

“I’m going to miss the service,” Holden says. “This was the Rolls Royce of hardware stores. It was the Last of the Mohicans.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

“Reflected in “The Bean,” the city exists within the Rust Belt as a postmodern “funhouse” of the twentieth century.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

“Oh, honey. Eventually, you’ll get used it. You’ll start to realize that’s just the smell of Chicago in summer.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

“A flâneur knows that the wrong way to use the city is actually the right way.”
― Martha Bayne, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology