Dorothy Baker > Quotes

“So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“There's nothing hard about it. But I get praised for the hardest of things I do, and I do some of the hardest of things. Things like waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night, all alone except for when I'm with someone; and it's getting harder and harder.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“You shouldn't ask me whether I like him or not. The way you mean it, I don't suppose I like anybody.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.”
― Dorothy Baker

“One thing about being alive is that you can swim. Other things too - you can look at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night and think of space as something you can't terribly care about conquering. Let it go on being spacious while it can. There's lots of time if you think in terms of light-years.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“Wenn man geboren wird, muss man leben.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“You want to know what my doctor said the first time she saw it? Yes you do. She said everything about it gives evidence of an informed taste. That’s a quote.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“But it can give me a turn, that face, any time I happen to catch it in a mirror; most particularly at times like this when I'm alone and have to admit it's really mine because there's no one else to accuse.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“Take it on faith —we're special," I said. "Who else could have had our mother for a mother and our father for a father?”
― Dorothy Baker

“She wastes herself, she drifts; all she wants to do with her life is lose it somewhere.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“In those days, reality was just as good as hallucination. The world looked all right any way they chose to look at it.”
― Dorothy Baker, Young Man With a Horn