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“...neither of them a good student or nimble with the Hebrew alphabet or particularly musical or athletic, [they] liked to ride their skateboards up and down the smooth, wide surface of Heather Lane, where the Eisenstats lived in a $3.5 million Tudor ...”

Meg Wolitzer - The Female Persuasion

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“Sam saw three boys dicking around on their skateboards. The smallest, a goofy-footed kid with chin-length straight hair noseslid down the eleven-stair handrail. He had the ballsy, wiry, little-dude confidence that comes from a low center of gravity, moving as if he knew exactly what every part of his body was doing. Sam watched the other two, larger boys, attempt noncommittal backside shuvits and bailed kickflips, spending more time retrieving boards than riding away clean.”

--Mary H.K. Choi -- Emergency Contact

Thank you to Robert Brink for the recommendation.

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“...Dustin tried to concentrate, but his attention kept drifting to the hallway that led unstoppably to Taz’s room. It was a dark hallway, with lights that went on automatically as you made your way to the bathroom. It reminded Dustin of the reptile hose at the zoo. Unless you were stoned, the effect was merely irritating. As Dustin tried to make small talk, the back door opened and Kira’s little brother came clattering with his skateboard, wearing one of those surf-wax T-shirts that said THE BEST FOR YOUR STICK. Unlike Jonas, he would never lack for friends or have to worry about being pantsed.”

Eric Puchner -- Model Home -- Page 95

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“A White boy rode flatfoot on a skateboard, towed along, hand to shoulder, by a black boy pedaling a brakeless fixed-gear bike. Dark August morning, deep in the Flatlands. Hiss of tires. Granular unraveling of skateboard wheels against asphalt. Summertime Berkeley giving off her old-lady smell, nine different styles of jasmine and a squirt of he-cat.”

Michael Chabon -- Telegraph Avenue

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“Nobody knew how he sheltered the Dean kids, even Alberto and Lonnie, even chest-puffing Henry, from being beaten, from having skateboards and bikes ripped off countless times. Defended the brownstones from the gang on Bergen and...”

Jonathan Lethem -- The Fortress of Solitude -- Page 460

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“Food, the bottomless metaphor. Food like, or as, an insatiable smile. A pocket of inmeats carved from a cart. That was my objective. Courtesy of a sanguine sincere Halali who liked to practice Spanish. The money from every pocket sold went to feed and clothe his wife and son deserted in Halalabad. He’d asked me, What are the foremost headphones to obtain for my heir? what is the most stable skateboard one may acquire? My answer had been to avoid him for a month.”

Joshua Cohen -- Four New Messages

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“He finished it off in the student kitchen of one Warren Chapman, a South African skateboarder he used to hang with back in the day. And as a result, he was so stoned now, standing on the platform with the rest, so stoned that he could not only hear sounds within sounds but sounds within sounds within sounds.”

Zadie Smith - White Teeth - Page 413

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“I didn’t have a cell phone yet, and when we were leaving school, Toothpaste told me he’d call to let me know whether I was going to watch him attempt skateboarding tricks in the park...”

Jonathan Safron Foer - Extremely Loud & incredibly Close - Page 14

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“An ambulance drove down the street between us, and I imagined who it was carrying, and what had happened to him. Did he break an ankle attempting a hard trick on his skateboard?”

Jonathan Safron Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Page 72

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“I told myself I didn’t miss him, but I did. I got stoned alone, watched Adult Access and the Playboy channel, read Grapes of Wrath and House of the Seven Gables which seemed as if they had to be tied for the most boring book ever written, and for what felt like thousands of hours -- time enough to learn Danish or play the guitar if I’d been trying -- fooled around in the street with a fucked-up skateboard Boris and I had found in one of the foreclosed houses down the block.”

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

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“He was also a horticulturist Buddhist (he kept bonsai junipers), a retired skateboarder forced out of the competition circuit by knee injury (he affected a limp), a manically verbigerant mediaphile -- in which he spoke only in the dialogue of female characters from John Carpenter and Wes Craven movies--and a brand ambassador, in which he would monthly choose a new product, an edible or drinkable, a wearable or widget, and would buy it and use it publicly and remark on how great it was to everyone around him in inordinate terms such as, “Powerade is deliciously refreshing, dude,” or, “Powerade is refreshingly delicious, dude,” enough so that people began assuming - he never disabused them - that he was a paid spokesperson, an influential marketing covertly to students.”

Joshua Cohen - Book of Numbers - Page 204

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“...and people come and go, and somewhere behind us a waiter drops a tray, and a family sings “Happy Birthday,” and outside the window pedestrians pass by, kids on skateboards, people walking dogs or pushing strollers or holding hands...”

Jonathan Tropper - How to Talk to a Widower: A Novel

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“Then Route 9 gets busy again, this time with bands of roving teenagers flipping their skateboards in parking lots and trying to score some beer from the supermarkets and convenience stores...”

Jonathan Tropper - One Last Thing Before I Go

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“...to the mall they were building behind the courthouse but the project stalled when the bottom fell out of the real estate market and it’s now a hangout for skateboarders and drug dealers, and someone should do something about it.”

Jonathan Tropper - This is Where I Leave You

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“Ricky was grinning, arms folded at his chest, big feet nuzzling his skateboard like two hands, sliding it lovingly back and forth across the grass.”

Jennifer Egan - Look at Me - page 449

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“He’s awesome,” she said, using the word in the male teenage skateboarding sense.”

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad

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“Bennie’s office was awesome, and I don’t mean that in the male teenage skateboarding sense - I mean it in the old-fashioned literal sense.”

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad

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