My (one of) Favorite part from The Goldfinch

"But if you close the door...the night could last forever..."

        "I'm not."And, in truth, I wasn't - only so disoriented I felt I might wake up and find i'd be sleeping with a book over my face. 

Boris, I realized, was looking up at the sky and humming to himself, a line from one of my mother's Velvet Underground songs: But if you close the door...the night could last forever...

       "What about you?" I said, rubbing my eyes.

       "Eh?" He said, looking at me with a smile. 

       "What's up? Will I see you again?"

       "Maybe," He said, in the same cheerful tone I imagined him using with Bami, Judy the barkeep's wife in Karmeywallag and everyone else in his life he'd ever said goodbye to. "Who knows?"

       "Will you meet me in a day or two?"

       "Well--"

       "Join me later. Take a plane - you have the money, i'll call you and tell you where i am. Don't say no."

       "Okay, then," said Boris, in the same cheerful voice. "I won't say no." But clearly, from his tone, he was saying no.