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

> For months she'd done business with Lars, arriving sometimes without having managed to take anything, just needing money. "I thought he was my boyfriend," she said. "But I think I wasn't thinking anymore." She was better now, hadn't stolen anything in two years. "That wasn't me, in Naples," she told you, looking out at the crowded bar. "I don't know who it was. I feel sorry for her."

- 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)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/for-months-shed

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> 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.

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

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> 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.

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