Sage Summers

“I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later - because I did not belong there, did not come from there - but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“I was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because I still had all the afternoons in the world.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem