“Someone had named the barrio we lived in Hollywood. Maybe it was a joke, maybe it was a prayer.”
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
“I wanted to make her forget. I thought that a guy's kisses could make a girl forget all the bad stuff. Sixteen year old boys don't know shit. How could a tongue down a girl's throat make her forget?”
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
“I really did believe that God had planted leaves in our hearts so that we could remember Eden.”
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
“I am in love with my new name.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“The world wasn't all that good to her and she wanted to remind everyone around her, but mostly herself I think, that she was worth something, that the air was hers too, that the ground she walked on was as much hers as it was anybody else's.”
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
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