La Trastienda Quotes & Sayings

She stepped toward Anna.
"I can get you a night with an accomplished male whore or a virginal schoolboy." Coral's eyes widened and seemed to flame. "Famous libertines or ragpickers off the street. One very special man or ten complete strangers. Dark men, red men, yellow men, men you've only dreamed of in the black of night, lonely in your bed, snug under your covers. Whatever you long for. Whatever you desire. Whatever you crave. You have only to ask me."
Anna stared at Coral like a mesmerized mouse before a particularly beautiful snake. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else? — Sheldon Adelson

No one should live beyond 30 — F Scott Fitzgerald

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other. — Terrence Real

Emerged from the tentative ways, the obscurities and dazzle of youth, we
look straight in front of us, ready for what may come (the door opens,
the door keeps on opening). All is real; all is firm without shadow or
illusion. Beauty rides our brows. — Virginia Woolf

We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory. — Charles Dickens