Renee Gillette

“My truth is not the same as yours because we don’t experience life in the same way.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Christmas was coming and there was a pervasive melancholy, as if everyone simultaneously remembered they had nowhere to go. Even”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon realized it was a tremendous stroke of luck to end up there. We could have had a fair-seized railroad flat in the East Village for what we were paying, but to dwell in this eccentric and damned hotel provided a sense of security as well as a stellar education. The goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the Fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids