# Maggie Cassidy

- Author: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy

## Quotes

> I'm sure gonna get you tonight — aint gonna be like it used to be with you — I'm gonna find out about you at last.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/im-sure-gonna.md)

> She laughed in his face, he slammed the door shut, put out lights, drove her home, drove the car back skittering crazily in the slush, sick, cursing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/she-laughed-in-his.md)

> Fluting spring was racing through the corridors and ritual alleys of my sacred brain in holy life and making me wake and resurge to the business of being and becoming a man.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/fluting-spring-was.md)

> I saw her, standing in the crowd, forlorn, dissatisfied, dark, unpleasantly strange.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/i-saw-her.md)

> Heirs leap screeching from doctors' laps while the old and the poor die on, and who's to bend over their bed and comfort.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/heirs-leap-screeching.md)

> I grieved inside that I had to give her up for Maggie. But I couldn't have Mary and Magdalene both so I had to decide my mind.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/i-grieved-inside.md)

> To my utter amazement I saw out of the corner of my eye the colored boy laid out almost flat on the floor in a low slung fantastic starting position, something impossibly modern and submarining and subterranean like bop, like the new gesture of a generation.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/to-my-utter.md)

> It's only later you learn to lean your head in the lap of God, and rest in love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/its-only-later.md)

> All in life, prime, young joy days, riches of sixteen, I sneaked off to the lazy unresponsive girl three miles across town by the tragic-flowing dark sad Concord.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/all-in-life.md)