That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.
“Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“I want to work at a library someday," I said. "I want to spend every waking day of my adult life surrounded by books.”
― The Girl He Used to Know
― The Girl He Used to Know
“The constant vigilance and my heightened anxiety that I'd screw it up anyway exhausted me, but I persevered.”
― The Girl He Used to Know
― The Girl He Used to Know
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“He sad, "I'm going to use that in something one day." And he wrote it down on a napkin and put it in his back pocket. I thought to myself, "What the hell makes you think I'm not going to use it in something once day?" But, of course, there it was in his next movie. That's how it was back then. I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man's great idea.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
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