"This Side of Brightness" Quotes
A multigenerational novel that weaves together the stories of sandhogs building the New York City subway and a homeless man living in its tunnels.
fiction | 304 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The world was made for the rich, and the rich could do as they damn well pleased.
I have seen the darkness in the middle of the day, and I have seen the day in the middle of the darkness.
The tunnels are the veins of the city.
The city's eyes were always on its own destruction.
The past was a city that you could not escape, no matter how far you traveled.
We lived in the shadows, and we liked it that way.
The darkness was never a darkness, but a bruise of light.
There was no dignity in this city, only the illusion of it.
We were a city of dreams, and the dreams were always of escape.
The city was a graveyard of memories.
