Quotes from bookGoodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella "Goodbye, Columbus"—which first appeared in The Paris Review—and five short stories. It was his first book and was published by Houghton Mifflin.
“…her breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them.”
Philip Roth book Goodbye, Columbus
Source: Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Chapter 2
“Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!”
Philip Roth book Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
Philip Roth book Goodbye, Columbus
Source: Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Chapter 2
Context: We came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them-at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess with Brenda, and the high walls of ego that rose, buttresses and all, between her and her knowledge of herself, we managed pretty well.
