# Goodbye, Columbus

- Author: [Philip Roth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/goodbye-columbus

## Quotes

> We came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them — at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess with Brenda, and the high walls of ego that rose, buttresses and all, between her and her knowledge of herself, we managed pretty well.

> Life was a throwing off for poor aunt Gladys, her greatest joys were taking out the garbage, emptying the pantry, and making threadbare bundles for what she still refers to as the poor Jews of Palestine.

> [H]er breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them.

> Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!