The Feral Detective Quotes

“Like other names I censored lately, this was a vote against invoking monsters, against etching their reality into the air.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective

“Then again, the story does involve a missing person, and it could well be me. Or you, or practically anybody. As he said to me once, who's not missing?”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective

“on the one hand there’s mansplaining, and on the other, there’s the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective

“Television had elected itself, I figured. It could watch itself too, for all I cared. I read my book.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective

“So I took my phone to a bakery and coffee shop called Some Crust and read Elena Ferrante at an outdoor table and hoped for some amusing college student to hit on me. I got hit on by amusing senior citizens instead. Perhaps they, like the Klan, had been lately emboldened.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective