Top 53 Stephanie Danler Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. What you think, everyone look, Alice just wake up and oh fuck, no wonderland.
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#3. Your sense are never inaccurate- it's your ideas that can be false.
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#4. I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?
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#5. 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.
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#6. Adorable. I had never seen grown women attack each other so fluently. No one tossed out adorable at Simone. No one declined Chef's tasting menu. And yet Simone wasn't stunned - she was braced. I realized that they were women who knew dangerous things about each other.
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#7. Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.
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#8. You are hoping to master the experience. The pain is what we know. It's our barometer of reality. We never trust pleasure.
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#9. Maybe he knew how I fantasized about living a twenty-four-hour life.
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#10. Do you see how, up close, it's blurry and passionate? And from a distance, whole?
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#11. Any business transaction - actually any life transaction - is negotiated by how you are making the other person feel.
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#12. You," she said. She grabbed my wrist and pressed two fingers onto me as if taking my pulse and I stopped breathing. "I know you. I remember you from my youth. You contain multitudes. There is a crush of experience coursing by you. And you want to take every experience on the pulse.
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#13. A saccharine, sentimental drip ran down my throat, and I was blinded by how stupid I had been not to see that everything was absolutely, one hundred percent going to be okay.
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#14. There are many romantic reasons to watch the sunrise. Once it started, it was hard to leave. I wanted to own it. I wanted it to be a confirmation that I was alive. Most of the time, however, it felt condemning.
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#15. It was Simone who used to say, on her better days, "Don't worry, little one, none of this will leave a scratch.
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#16. You know, you the worst kind, you want to marry the artist and live like squalor, but you wait, in five years you be like, Baby Jake why we eat ramen noodles every night? You a hustler, don't blind me, I see.
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#17. How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.
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#18. Salting the most nuanced of enterprises, the food always requesting more, but the tipping point fatal.
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#19. As I contemplated the skyline this double feeling came to me as one thought, pressing in from either side of the bridge, impossible for me to reconcile: It is ludicrous for anyone to live here and I can never leave.
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#20. You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don't know if there is anything less helpful.
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#22. I DIDN'T KNOW what a date was and I wasn't an anomaly. Most of the girls I knew didn't get asked out on dates. People got together through alcohol and a process of elimination.
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#23. Lust rubied my blood, gave me the gait of an uncaught criminal, and I felt like I could walk forever.
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#24. We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared.
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#25. couldn't call to mind. She belonged to herself only. She had edges, boundaries, tastes, definition down to her eyelashes. And when she walked it was clear she knew where she was going. As
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#26. didn't know what a date was and I wasn't an anomaly. Most of the girls I knew didn't get asked out on dates. People got together through alcohol and a process of elimination. If they had anything in common beyond that they would go out and have a conversation.
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#28. You knew what was playing at Film Forum, and you corrected anyone who lumped Godard and Truffaut together.
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#29. I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.
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#30. 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.
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#33. You think it impresses me that you know how to hurt yourself?
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#34. It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.
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#35. 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.
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#36. True, but I like everything," I said.
"That means you like nothing.
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#37. That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge. He
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#38. Our binges on each other were constructing something behind our backs: the stubborn stains of intimacy marked our hands.
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#39. God, how I loved him. Not him exactly, let me try again: I loved his ghost.
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#40. 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.
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#41. She belonged to herself only. She had edges, boundaries, tastes, definition down to her eyelashes. And when she walked it was clear she knew where she was going.
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#42. Tasting is a farce," she said with her eyes closed, nose deep in the bowl of the glass. "The only way to get to know a wine is to take a few hours with it. Let it change and then let it change you. That's the only way to learn anything - you have to live with it.
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#43. When you can't see in front of you life is nothing but surprises. Looking back, there were truly so few of them.
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#44. Once, when we were wild, sugar intoxicated us, the first narcotic we craved and languished in. We've tamed, refined it, but the juice from a peach still runs like a flash flood.
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#45. When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.
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#46. It was the day after Thanksgiving. I was the 3 p.m. backwaiter, but the trains were running irregularly, and while I had heard one sighing into the station as I ran down the stairs, my card was out of money. Which is to say, I was late.
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#47. Sundays had a candid feeling. There were no laws, no stakes.
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#48. BITTER: always a bit unanticipated. Coffee, chocolate, rosemary, citrus rinds, wine. Once, when we were wild, it told us about poison. The mouth still hesitates at each new encounter. We urge it forward, say, Adapt. Now, enjoy it.
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#49. A certain connoisseurship of taste, a mark of how you deal with the world, is the ability to relish the bitter, to crave it even, the way you do the sweet.
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#50. Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?
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#52. The city does sleep, the windows darken and the streets vacate. New York dreams us. Wild, somnambulistic creatures, we move unhurried toward our own disappearance at dawn.
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#53. Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.
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