86 Quotes by Stephanie Danler

No, I said. Nothing you do is ever embarrassing. You’re not a girl.

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

I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit – the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. But this was so luscious, so tart I thought it victorious. So – some tomatoes tasted like water, and some tasted like summer lightning.

We always just miss New York. I watched it with this neighborhood. When I moved here everyone was mourning SoHo of the seventies, Tribeca of the eighties, and already ringing the death knell for the East Village. Now people romanticize the Alphabet City of Jonathan Larson. We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared.

It’s an epidemic with women your age. A gross disparity between the way that they speak and the quality of thoughts that they’re having about the world. They.

I’m giving you permission to take yourself seriously. To take the stuff of this world seriously. And to start having. That’s abundance.

So – some tomatoes tasted like water, and some tasted like summer lightning.

You’re all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you’ve taken as you’ve grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined.

Our binges on each other were constructing something behind our backs: the stubborn stains of intimacy marked our hands.