# Quote — Jeffrey Ford, The Empire of Ice Cream

> Now I was stuck and could feel the tide of years suddenly beginning to rise around me.

- Author: [Jeffrey Ford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford.md)
- Book: [The Empire of Ice Cream](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/the-empire-of-ice-cream.md)
- Page: 307
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford#The_Empire_of_Ice_Cream_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/the-empire-of-ice-cream/now-i-was

## More from this book

> Halloween was close, our favorite holiday because it carried none of the pain-in-the-ass holiness of Christmas and still there was free candy.

p. 160 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/the-empire-of-ice-cream/halloween-was-close.md)

> Parents—so essential yet sometimes like something you have stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them?

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/the-empire-of-ice-cream/parents-so-essential-yet.md)

> My hero was J. S. Bach. It was from his works that I came to understand mathematics and, through a greater understanding of math, came to a greater understanding of Bach—the golden ratio, the rise of complexity through the reiteration of simple elements, the presence of the cosmic in the common.

p. 58 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeffrey-ford/the-empire-of-ice-cream/my-hero-was.md)