“I had waited so long for my moment to become beautiful I watched out for it carefully but, if it came, I did not see it. Now I know it has passed me by But when I look back at old selfies Maybe I was. Beauty is never inhabited by the beautiful.” Beauty Book:My Life as a Godard Movie Source: My Life as a Godard Movie
“Beauty's a role that's also an identity. You can't take it off when you get home and, even if it's not your job, it's a role you're always working: a second shift that may as well be a second career.” Beauty Book:My Life as a Godard Movie Source: My Life as a Godard Movie
“The third person. There was no sign of this happiness on the outside, she knew. She was bored by this happiness that seemed out of place, impatient to get rid of it. The feeling was less pleasurable than she had imagined it might have been, less well-defined, and when she felt along its strings she found it was not easily traced or attached to the objects she thought it might have been attached to. Perhaps it was not attached to anything at all.” HappinessIntrospectionOverthinkingMoodinessIdle ThoughtsTravel Anomie Book:Vertigo Source: Vertigo
“There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills.” FamilyIn LawsUnloved Relations Book:Vertigo Source: Vertigo
“The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.” Maturity Vs AgeFamily ExpectationsAdult Failures Book:Vertigo Source: Vertigo
“I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.” ParisTourismObserver Instead Of ParticipantFrequent VisitorSolitary Diner Book:Vertigo Source: Vertigo
“Theories: *During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, are the oysters packed in ice or tinned, and shipped to Paris? *During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, do the serving staff shuck shells? Or *During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, are the restaurant, and the oysters, abandoned, and the staff laid off?” Mental AgonyWorst Date EverJust Shoot Him AlreadySevere Boredom Book:Vertigo Source: Vertigo