Julia > Julia's Quotes

“The alliance between Suze and me didn't turn out exactly to be a holiday in the woods. Eventually fate flagged it down and it came to a full stop. It had to end. She took one turn in the road and I took another.”
― Bob Dylan

“I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“My stake is always, of course, in the unmentioned girl in the plaid silk dress. Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

“There's many a beast then in a populous city and many a civil monster”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden