A Day's Wait Quotes

"People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk."
"I know they do. At school in France, the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two."
-conversation between Schatz and the narrator

After a while he said to me, " You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."
"It doesn't bother me."
"No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you."
-conversation between Schatz and the narrator

"Take this with water."
"Do you think it will do any good?"
"Of course it will."
-conversation between Schatz and the narrator

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Quotes

"I am one of those who like to stay late at the café," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night."
- old waiter

He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted café was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep.
- narrator taliking about the old waiter

"He was in despair."
"What about?"
"Nothing."
"How do you know it was nothing?"
"He has plenty of money."
- conversation between the waters at the café