“I felt luxuriously involved in an unsolvable mystery, my favorite way to feel.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“The Chelsea was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“. . 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.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
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