# Quote — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

> [Coz] was trying to get Sasha to use that word, which was harder to avoid in the case of a wallet than with a lot of the things she'd lifted over the past year, when her condition (as Coz referred to it) had begun to accelerate: five sets of keys, fourteen pairs of sunglasses, a child's striped scarf…Sasha no longer took anything from stores—their cold, inert goods didn't tempt her. Only from people.

- Author: [Jennifer Egan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan.md)
- Book: [A Visit from the Goon Squad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jennifer_Egan#A_Visit_from_the_Goon_Squad_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/coz-was-trying

## More from this book

> Bennie's assistant, Sasha, brought him coffee: cream and two sugars. He shimmied a tiny red enameled box from his pocket, popped the tricky latch, pinched a few gold flakes between his trembling fingers, and released them into his cup. He'd begun this regimen two months ago, after reading in a book on Aztec medicine that gold and coffee together were believed to ensure sexual potency. Bennie's goal was more basic than potency: sex drive, his own having mysteriously expired.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/bennies-assistant-sasha.md)

> Mom makes sculptures in the desert out of trash and our old toys. Eventually her sculptures fall apart, which is “part of the process.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/mom-makes-sculptures.md)

> I can't tell if [Alice’s] actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/i-cant-tell.md)