Going Bovine Quotes

Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Going Bovine.

Friendship Quotes

You dismissed us on day one, I think. It's the kind of sardonic comment that would be good to share with a mate, a pal, a sidekick and co-conspirator. If I had one. (2.7)

Mortality Quotes

Whatever it was, I was convinced that this ride was where you went to die. I would be separated from my family forever and end up in some part of the underworld where smiling kid robots in boater h...

Versions of Reality Quotes

"Is Don Quixote mad or is it the world that embraces these ideals of the knight-errant that is actually mad? That's the rhetorical question that Cervantes seems to be posing to us." (2.10)

Philosophical Viewpoints: Quantum Physics vs. Religion Quotes

My dad is a physicist. He works with people who deal in all kinds of weird cosmic s***. String theory. Parallel universes. The viability of time travel. It's not going to build you a better toaster...

Family Quotes

Jenna's seen me but she's pretending she hasn't. When you're pre-majoring in perfection, having a brother who's a social paramecium is a real drawback. While our tense family situation has forced m...

Fate vs. Free Will Quotes

Those gloved hands of Chet's ball into fists at his side for a second before going limp. "Because I've accepted Jesus Christ into my heart and my life. And I know that what happened to me happened...

Transformation Quotes

"Have you ever done anything for anybody else just because you actually cared about them? No. You probably don't even know what that feels like." This is the part where I jump in and say, Why, that...

Love, Lust, and Sex Quotes

One of the Hotness Crew smirks. Staci Johnson. I'm not too proud to tell you that it makes me go a little expansive in my Fruit of the Loins. Staci Johnson is a shallow social climber who would nev...

Life, Consciousness, and Existence Quotes

The thing is, before they pulled me out, everything had seemed made of magic. Like I really believed in this crazy dream. But the minute I came to on the hard, glittery, spray-painted, fake snow an...