Quotes from Gregory Blake Smith

What interests me," she took up finally, and there was now no touch of her characteristic satire, "is a life in which I am engaged in discovering what interests me. Not just now, as a young woman, but when I am a wife, and when I have children, and beyond. A life of imagination, and experience, and engagement, and commitment to something beyond myself.

Margo shushing Alice, who had to sigh theatrically every time Cary Grant did a Cary Grant thing.

Were they—were all of them, Alice too?—so sophisticated, so counterfeit in their emotions, that they operated one or two steps removed from the substance of things?

One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.

metaphorically, Mr. Winterbourne.

One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.

But I feel myself marooned on the island of my self.

his most recent sobriquet

Ah, to be able to read both the surface and that which is below the surface!