Falling Up the Stairs Quotes

“She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town.”
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs

“So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her.”
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs

“I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, "No, it's just an ironic pregnancy.”
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs

“It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.”
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs

“She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.”
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs

“She had shins like fireplugs and hips as wide as an oven door. Her head was stuck directly onto her shoulders with the usual Prussian predilection for omitting the neck, and to watch her turn her head in the direction of Aunt Marvel's yodeling demands for attention was to watch a large and noble owl.”
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs