Jenna

“I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening,”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

“There's a school of wisdom about love that says the surest way to lose someone is to hold on to them too tightly -- as demonstrated over and over again by the split-ups of lovers, but also by parents and children. Although there it's more complicated by far. Lovers, initially strangers, become strangers again; the tie between parent and child pulls and twists for a lifetime, taking on the strangest forms.”
― Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

“Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“I wonder if I'll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.