Worn Stories Quotes

“My name sounded strained and ugly in his accent. He was giving me so much, and all I felt was the fatigue of trying to want it.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“Doesn’t it just kill you? Can you imagine an eighteen year old girl coming back from the bus station to her room and seeing that the guy she loved had left his shirt for her? He knew. He just knew it, and it was beautiful.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“always write in the shirt because it makes me feel like I have a secret. When you write, it’s good to have a secret because in a way you do. You have to nurture the secret until other people know about it. Maybe wearing this shirt connects me with a part of my younger self that was incredibly emotional and vivid, and those feelings, combined with that sense of having a secret, is how I like to feel when I write.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“Susan Orlean

I guess it's probably safer to be this way bout clothing than men or religion or something that could be really dangerous. I'm quite pragmatic about other choices in my life, but with clothing I'm a romantic - I abandon myself completely and the practical side get trumped. I become a zealot.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“Yael Meridan Schori

I'd grown up as a tomboy and had this "everything you can do, I can do better" kind of attitude.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“Because I'd like to think I can still summon the total carpe diem, reckless abandon, bulletproof sense of invincibility that I once had wearing that shirt.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories