Santa Barbara Quotes

“Sailors approaching the coast in a fog can recognize the Santa Barbara Channel by the smell of bitumen which floats on the water.”
― Caroline C. Leighton, West Coast Journeys: 1865-1879 The Travelogue of a Remarkable Woman

“But all of that is mostly invisible to me, an enchanting landscape painted on a see-through curtain in front of a stage where scenes of unspeakable horror play out. I can go for weeks without even seeing the beach, kept busy by emergency calls: fights, stabbings, shootings, burglaries, robberies, rapes, drunks, domestics, suicides. I spend more time in run-down housing projects and trailer parks than I do admiring sunsets. But they don’t pay me to enjoy the view”
― David Alton Hedges, Werewolf: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog

“Santa Barbara is pleasant. It's heaven, but with a bit more traffic.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time