86 Quotes by Stephanie Danler

Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

Boredom can be incredibly productive. It's the fear of boredom that's so destructive.

God, how I loved him. Not him exactly, let me try again: I loved his ghost.

When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.

Tess, don't you worry about old Mrs. Neely. If you ever reach my age you'll find that death becomes a need, like sleep.

The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?

Whenever I'd asked him about that key: "It's nothing, it's not the key to anything, a tattoo is just a tattoo, only as permanent as the body." How I swooned when he spoke to me in that vaguely Buddhist, vaguely nihilist accent. In reality it was a shitty tattoo that was a warning to anyone who looked at them that they were not available.