Sophia

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays