"You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes."
- Gary Shteyngart
"We may not be a great power anymore, we may be into you for sixty-five trillion yuan-pegged, but we're not afraid to use our troops if our spades act up, so watch out, or we'll go fucking nuclear on y..."
"The humiliation of growing up a Jew in the Soviet Union, of cleaning piss-stained bathrooms in the States, of worshiping a country that would collapse as simply and inelegantly as the one he had aband..."
"The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful."
"Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our p..."
"And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected ..."
"Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there."
"After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece."
"Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone."
"All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible."