Tiffany

“Women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get on earth, and there I was, in heaven, only in Bakersfield.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language

“All of this illustrates what might be termed the paradox of limitation, which runs through everything that follows: the more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control, and freedom from the inevitable constraints of being human, the more stressful, empty, and frustrating life gets.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“A double standard obtains: while learning a foreign language is considered prestigious, acquiring one naturally is stigmatized.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language