This Boy's Life Quotes

"I was caught up in my mother's freedom, her delight in her freedom, her dream of transformation." (1.7)

"We didn't have a telephone and she never went to church. She thought it was good for me, but beside the point for herself." (2.15)

"'That's a real coincidence because I was thinking about Phoenix myself. I even got the Phoenix paper. They have lots of opportunities there. Seattle too. What do you think about Seattle?'" (4.21)

"His family had always been Jews, but I had to wait ten years before learning this." (2.4)

"I was subject to fits of feeling unworthy, somehow deeply at fault." (2.13)

"I sometimes had to bite my lip to keep from laughing in the ecstasy of my power over them." (3.7)

"I wanted to call myself Jack, after Jack London. I believed that having his name would charge me with some of the strength and competence inherent of my idea of him." (2.2)

"I saw the time was right to make a play for souvenirs." (1.4)

"He had warned her against coming, said there was no work in Salt Lake and that his own company was about to go out on strike. But his letter was so friendly! My mother just knew she'd get a job o...