Quotes from book

Mona Lisa Overdrive

“Viewing them induced a mild but not unpleasant vertigo, one of the rare times she was able to directly grasp the fact of her fame.”

“Your saving grace, Danielle, is that you make the rest of your kind look vaguely human.”

“Found this picture of Angie laughing in a restaurant with some other people, everybody pretty but beyond that it was like they had this glow, not really in the photograph but it was there anyway, something you feel. Look, she said to Lanette, showing her the picture, they got this glow.
It’s called money, Lanette said.”

“Have you ever considered the relationship of clinical paranoia to the phenomenon of religious conversion?”

““You were hurt,” Kumiko said, looking at the scar.
Sally looked down. “Yeah.”
“Why don’t you have it removed?”
“Sometimes it’s good to remember.”
“Being hurt?”
“Being stupid.””

“He’d grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did.”