Stella

“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft”
― Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life

“Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.”
― Michael Foley, Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
― S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch