# 30 Day Wonder

- Author: [Richard Wilson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wilson.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wilson/30-day-wonder

## Quotes

> I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that its predecessor, so that you had to be a contortionist to take a nap.

p. 48

> “What do you think of it, old man?”
>
> I thought very little of it but I pretended to turn it over in my mind. “It’s got class,” I said finally. To myself I thought, with a capital K.

p. 79

> “‘Morning, Sam,” the coffee boy said. “How about some coffee?”
>
> “‘Morning, Herb,” I said. “That’s the first intelligent remark I’ve heard in some time.”

p. 49

> “I’m good for about thirty bucks,” I said. “Then I’ll have to get a refill from petty cash.”
>
> “There’s nothing petty about cash,” Stew said.

p. 51

> “I’ve made my choice, Sam,” she had written. “I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.”

p. 153

> We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

p. 19