Kayla Cagan > Kayla's Quotes

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”
― Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty

“I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.”
― Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty

“So you and Bridget spent the better part of last night and early morning texting each other questionable messages?" Mom asked.

"I think it's called 'sexting,'" said Dad. It was the worst sentence uttered in the history of my life.”
― Sarah Skilton, High and Dry

“I'm of the glamorous ladies
At whose beckoning history shook.
But you are a man, and see only my pan,
So I stay at home with a book.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“I love painting. I love drawing. I’m never let down, even when the picture isn’t exactly what I want. I can keep working on it. Paintings speak back. They argue. But it’s just because they still want attention. They aren’t done yet.

They want to keep the relationships alive. And when they break your heart, it’s only because they’re that good, not because they’re bad. Bad art can be fixed or transformed. But bad people? Bad choices? I think they’re with us forever.”
― Kayla Cagan, Piper Perish

“Verliefd worden moet je eigenlijk met je ogen dicht doen". - Andy Warhol

Helemaal mee eens. Dan hoef je degene die je leven heeft verwoest niet steeds voor je te zien.”
― Kayla Cagan, Piper Perish

“Slechte kunst kan veranderd worden, getransformeerd worden tot iets goeds. Maar slechte mensen? Of slechte beslissingen?

Volgens mij zijn die nooit meer goed te maken.”
― Kayla Cagan, Piper Perish

“Because that’s what life is—joy peppered by loss. It’s why you get a dog. And then you get another dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“One thing I was born intrinsically knowing that has never left me: life is not worth living if those I love suffer, suffer alone, or get left behind.”
― Moon Unit Zappa, Earth to Moon: A Memoir

“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.”
― Moon Unit Zappa

“Warhol will plant a journalism seed in me. He will also defend me in his diary, which will be published posthumously a few years from now and point out a thing no one currently acknowledges but that I will feel acutely--Warhol will describe his experience of my father and privately criticize Frank for viewing me as something he alone invented, a tool at my dad's disposal. When this icon's journal entries are made public, they wll become concrete validation and confirmation of my own unarticulated experience, a tiny light in the dark that lets me start to see my way out.”
― Moon Unit Zappa, Earth to Moon: A Memoir