Natalie

“The night was young and the moon was silver and the Irish have never been boring.”
― Eve Babitz

“We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imagination with the greatest intensity becomes history.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

“I've noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death.”
― Eve Babitz

“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelled like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realised that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.”
― Eve Babitz