Goodbye To All That Quotes

“Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That

“I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. I could write a syndicated column for teenagers under the name “Debbi Lynn” or I could smuggle gold into India or I could become a $100 call girl, and none of it would matter.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That

“I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That

“... and the warm air smelled of mildew and some instinct, programmed by all the movies I had ever seen and all the songs I had ever heard sung and all the stories I had ever read about New York, informed me that it would never be quite the same again. In fact it never was.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That

“I had never before understood what "despair" meant, and I am not sure that I understand now, but I understood that year.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That