“Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.”
Source: Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
“You musn't give yur hearth to wild things...”
“I am always drawn back to the places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instant there is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment. It was one room crowded with attic fur-niture, a sofa and fat chairs upholstered in that itchy, particular red velvet that one associates with hot days on a train. The walls were stucco, and a color rather like tobacco-spit. Everywhere, in the bathroom too, there were prints of Roman ruins freckled brown with age.
The single window looked out on a fire escape. Even so, my spirits heightened whenever I felt in my pocket the key to this apartment; with all its gloom, it still was a place of my own, the first, and my books were there, and jars of pencils to sharpen, everything I needed, so I felt, to become the writer I wanted to be.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“I guess you can leave Brooklyn, but Brooklyn never leaves you!”
Source: It All Started in Brooklyn: My Treasured Memories of Growing Up in a Place Like No Other
“Every single road in the world is somebody's neighborhood, part of somebody's everyday routine and comfort zone. Why, I then reasoned, couldn't I be perfectly comfortable walking down their road?”
Source: 3 mph: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.”
Source: Take a Deep Breath for Me: A Memoir
“The chapters of life are penned by our choices, whether small or monumental; let's endeavor to write a story worth reading.”
“The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.”
Source: I Was Amelia Earhart
“Every generation says this of itself, but these were indeed bewildering and unprecedented times he lived in, a time before iPhones were everywhere, and people still looked up as they walked, their heads filled with self-generated thoughts floating up from deep pits in the subconscious.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!”