"Netherland" Quotes
A man finds solace in cricket and forms an unexpected friendship in post-9/11 New York City.
fiction | 269 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The thing about cricket - it's not a game, it's a world.
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
New York is a city that can drive you out of your mind with anger, or desire, or both.
The fact of the matter is that New York is not like any other city in the world.
There are moments when we, too, need to be let alone. We are not separate, and we are not alone, but we need to be let alone in order to apprehend the real.
The way we live makes us lonely. We're so busy, we don't have time to feel lonely.
The things we do, the decisions we make, affect the people around us. It's kind of a chain reaction.
No one can deny what a city, at its worst, can do to a person's soul.
The big question about New York is, 'Why are we all in New York?'
The city's inner life, it seemed, was to be found on its streets.
