Back Where He Started Quotes

“Wade, aren’t wingbacks a little much?” “Not considering how much time you spend sitting at your kitchen table. And face it, honey, this may scream ‘formal,’ but it’s really whispering ‘kitchen.”
― Jay Quinn, Back Where He Started

“If men were from Mars and women from Venus, I was from an unknown star in neither orbit. My sensitivity, as finely honed a skill as I possessed, still lacked a working edge with my Andrea.”
― Jay Quinn, Back Where He Started

“From inside our turn-of-the-century Italianate home, I watched them standing out on the sidewalk or peering from their car windows. I always wondered what they were looking for. Did they imagine life in the old homes was like a life they dreamed of and didn’t have? Did they think the traces of fading graciousness and entitlement that emanated from the aging plaster and hardwood floors endowed the current occupants with lives that were more meaningful than their own?”
― Jay Quinn, Back Where He Started