Ivy

“What bothers me most is that I haven’t got to the end of my story, and I can’t start over with someone else, it’s too hard.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Actually, the only time I ever tried to cultivate being sexy was when I read Peyton Place. I was about sixteen and I read that this guy's watching this woman walk and he can tell she's a good fuck by the way she walks. It's a whole passage. He's telling Allison McKenzie, "I know you're a virgin." And she says, "Well, how?" And he says, "I can tell by the way you walk." And I thought, Uh-oh, everybody knows! I was ashamed to be a virgin, so I tried to cultivate a fucked walk. I tried to figure out what it looked like. I figured I'd watch any hot woman I could. I mean, look at Jeanne Moreau. You watch her walk across the street on the screen and you know she's had at least a hundred men. (Penthouse interview, 1976)”
― Patti Smith

“Remembering this has a survival”
― Sam Vaknin, Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited

“I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted