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Stephanie Danler Quotes

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“We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared.”
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter: A novel
Tagged: New York City, Dreams, ambitions, Past, present, Future, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I wanted to say, My life is full. I chose this life because it's a constant assault of color and taste and light and it's raw and ugly and fast and it's mine. And you'll never understand. Until you live it, you don't know.”
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter
Tagged: Starz
“That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge.”
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter: A novel
Tagged: New York City, Dreams, ambitions, Past, present, Future, Love, beauty, Knowledge
“When you’re older you will know that at some unconscious level not only did you see it coming, but you created it, in your own blind, stumbling way. You will console yourself with the fact that it wouldn’t have mattered, seeing it or not seeing it. You were a sponge for incident.”
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter
“I never let myself want anything this much before.”
— Tess, Sweetbitter, Season 1: It's Mine
Tagged: Wants, desires
“I have the urge to tell him that it is real this time. That barging into Los Angeles with gifts and flowers to “celebrate” my birthday and then making me sleep alone is—really, honestly, truly—the death blow to us. But I say nothing about that.”
— Stephanie Danler, The Last Time We Had Sex
Tagged: Sex, Heartbreak
“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.”
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter
“She re-marked her lips with her lipstick. I saw sprays of silver in her coarse hair. I saw inscriptions of her years around her mouth, a solid crease between her brows from a lifetime of cynicism. The posture of a woman who had stood in a casual spotlight in every room she'd ever been in, not for gloss or perfection, for self-possession. Everything she touched she added an apostrophe to.”
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter
Tagged: Starz
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