Kat

“Women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get on earth, and there I was, in heaven, only in Bakersfield.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people’s houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl

“I don’t want the brain of my twenty-one-year-old self. Or the impulses or the bloody . . . inner turmoil. I want everything I have now—I want all the lessons I’ve learned and the experiences I’ve had and to know all the stuff I know. But I want to transpose myself back to the physical state of being twenty-one forever, with all my life ahead of me.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“More secrets I did not like wearing shorts when I was little because I didn’t want people to know I had knees.”
― Georgia Pritchett, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety – A Funny and Poignant Memoir from the Emmy-Winning Writer of Succession