“Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.”
“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
“I submitted a poem last night to The New Yorker. They said it can take up to three months to hear back. I got rejected immediately.”
“Colt has the subtlety of a car alarm.”
“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”
“And every time she hears from him, another pebble of hope joins the little cluster she has collected.”