Past the Post Quotes

“As Muriel put the martinis on a tray, Mick reappeared and put a plate of smoked fish dip and crackers on the bar in front of us. “Thank you, Mick,” I said. I was a fiend for Mick’s homemade fish dip. It was the perfect bar food in my book, and there was no finer food than bar food. “Wahoo,” he said in reply. I assumed he was telling me the type of fish he had used to make the dip, but he might just have been excited.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“control the world around me. I could, however, control how and when I reacted.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“Even if—and I felt an involuntary shudder as I thought it—even if I found myself a new bar down in Miami, a place where I could meet a few people, make a few friends to chew the fat, watch a game. A place that could be my home away from home. Not a place that would replace this one. I had resolved that such a thing couldn’t be done and shouldn’t be tried. This was a place to which I would always return,”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“We got in and looked at each other and said nothing. Sometimes communication has to be written, like a legal document for others to be able to see when you’re not around to explain the story yourself. Other times, it has to be verbal to make your point known and understood by someone who needs to hear it. And then there were times when communication was neither written nor spoken. It was nebulous, ethereal. I said nothing, and Ron didn’t smile.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“When I finally sat up, I felt the stabs of pain in my shoulder, my deltoids, my thighs, my lower back, my buttocks. I stopped naming all the places that hurt because I realized I didn’t have the names for all of those parts.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“I wasn’t a fan of secrets. They rarely made things better. But they also came in various shades, from No, your butt does not look big in that to I slept with your sister. I”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“I couldn’t debate an argument like Still and hope to win, so I clammed up.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“All good things in moderation, she would say. Even moderation, Oscar Wilde would add in my head. Or perhaps it was Ralph Waldo Emerson. They were pretty interchangeable when it came to quote attribution.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“just off the track—where the owners and the horse and the jockey all stood proudly for a photo. I hoped the horse got an apple or something; after all, he seemed to be the one who had done most of the work.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post

“was back in my preferred chinos and a shirt I got from a guy who used to work in a turnpike tollbooth. It was covered with signs for all the tollways in the Sunshine State.”
― A.J. Stewart, Past the Post