# Last Exit to Brooklyn

- Author: [Hubert Selby Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/last-exit-to-brooklyn

## Quotes

> A cigarette only takes a certain amount of time to smoke and though this takes time it seems to take less and less with each one and you can only smoke so many, there comes a time when you have to stop, when you just cant light the next one . . . at least not for a while.

> Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.