Golden Days Quotes

“But I say there was a race of hardy laughers, mystics, crazies, who knew their real homes, or who had been drawn to this gold coast for years, and they lived through the destroying light, and on, into Light ages.”
― Carolyn See, Golden Days

“Because under his sedate blazer and his knobby chest, there beat a heart, remember, that loved the tango.”
― Carolyn See, Golden Days

“But what I want to know is: Who did think up the gas that goes on your skin and you throw up into your gas mask (if you have one) until you strangle on your vomit? It must have been a guy somewhere. Why don’t we know his name? Do men know his name, just like they always know the name of the Dodgers’ new shortstop? The secretary of the man who invented the vomiting gas must have known something, or did she just think of him as the generous lover who bought her the nightgown with the silver threads in grey chiffon and the matching negligee with the white feathers at the neck, or the cruel lover who stopped asking if she’d like to forget this world with him at the Beverly Hilton or the Foghorn down at the Marina? Maybe his wife knew he was a salamander, a newt, a subhuman who never should have crawled up out of the slime, but still she had to worry that he didn’t spend enough time with the kids.”
― Carolyn See, Golden Days

“If you think finding the right place just happens, you've got another think.”
― Carolyn See, Golden Days

“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all over America because this was the place to find dreams and pleasure and love. I noticed--looking at headlines--that some cities emptied and some didn't. Ours didn't, not completely.”
― Carolyn See, Golden Days