Tuesday, November 27, 2012

on leaving


“I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.”

― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem 

Image from New York Magazine

2 comments:

  1. I can't wait to read all about your new york moment. miss you already xxxx

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  2. We will miss you SO MUCH, but can not wait to hear of all your NYC adventures xx

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