“If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them”
some great advice to a friend whose recent date did not have books, bookshelves, nor apparently entertain the possibility of books in his life. ever.
What are you looking for besides a man who wears the right shorts?
— Juan Antonio, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Try to stop living horizontally, where you cannot put down roots, where you are a tourist everywhere you go—even in your own home.
— Olya Thompson, “A Quiet Revolution” Vogue September 2008
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
— J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love