Madelyn

“We drove back through the valley, down to Ventura Boulevard, and over the hills to Hollywood and then west to the Château Marmont, waiting like Tangiers for strangers to find happiness. The land of self-enchantment had, once more, upheld its end of the deal—to be there for those willing to stay. By then, the jacaranda flowers had all fallen and squashed onto the streets in sticky mush, no longer turning the town lavender with clouds, but still they’d be there again next May and so would I.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”
― Audre Lorde

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.”
― Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood