#stephanie danler

[luxe-pauvre]

“You know, style isn’t frivolous. In my day it was a sign of your integrity, a sign that you knew who you were.”

Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

#Stephanie Danler #Sweetbitter

[spiritofwhitefire]

“I’ve loved some very sad people in my life and hurt myself trying to get them to change. They didn’t, and I have no business being surprised by it. People will tell you who they are. It takes an emergency for some of us to listen.”

-Stephanie Danler, Stray: A Memoir

#Stephanie danler #stray #quotes #books

[rey-jake-therapist]

“Where do I—” I reached out for an arm and noticed too late that it wasn’t striped. It was bare. There was a static shock when I touched it.

“Oh. You’re not my person.” I looked up. Black jeans and a white T-shirt with a backpack on one shoulder. Eyes so pale, a weatherworn, spectral blue. He was covered in sweat and slightly out of breath. I inhaled sharply.

“My trailer person, I mean. You’re not him.”His eyes were a vise.

“Are you sure?”

I nodded. He looked me up and down, indiscreetly.

“What are you?”

“I’m new.”

“Jake.”

We both turned. The woman who had known the wine stood in the doorway. She didn’t see me. Her gaze distilled the kitchen light to its purest element.

“Good morning. What time does your shift start again?”

“Oh, fuck off, Simone.”

She smiled, pleased.

“I have your plate,” she said, and turned into the dining room. The doors swung back violently. And then all I could see was his feet pounding the last few stairs.

#sweetbitter #jake sweetbitter #tom sturridge #Stephanie danler #Book version #jake gifs #jake x tess #simone sweetbitter #tess sweetbitter

[boysofbooks]

One time he broke into the house on Devoe Street in Brooklyn, removing the screen, scraping himself shimmying through the window. I was in the shower and screamed when he pulled back the curtain. He was ecstatic, overly proud of himself, and I laughed so hard I had to sit down. We didn't talk about us. I stayed in the shower and he watched. Didn't touch me. By dinnertime he was back in San Francisco.

Stephanie Danler, Stray

#boys of books #the monster #stray #stephanie danler #sweetbitter #books #quotes #lit #reeading #book quotes #lit quotes #reading quotes #nonfiction #memoir #romance

[cosmicwhoresimpingismyliving]

So I’m currently listening to the audio book called the killing hour and I only started it last night and I’m basically half way through it. These two books are definitely the next two I plan on reading after this 🥺👀🥰

#booklust #bookworm #booknerd #books #sweetbitter #coraline #neil gaiman #stephanie danler #booklover #book aesthetic #booklr #book photography #book blog #bookaddict #bookalcoholic

[golden-rage]

#this part ruins me every single time #sweetbitter #Stephanie Danler #literature #quotes #books #fiction #unrequited love #personal

[dance-in-my-storm]

Describing living in New York City:

“It is ludicrous for anyone to live here and I can never leave.”

-Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler

#personal #life #quotes #quote #book quotations #book #sweetbitter #stephanie danler #newyorkgirl #new york #new york city

[almoststardust]

"A sign," I said, catching his eyes. He made fun of my tendency to invoke fate. Simone made fun of me too, but said it was very old-world, which was a compliment when we talked about wine. Jake and I looked at each other, and I thought, How can you believe everything is accidental when we're together and it feels like this? Suddenly, dozens of pigeons thrashed against the fire escape, their wings flashing the light, hammering the windows, and I said, I don't think it was out loud, Okay, I accept.

Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

#prose #symbols #stephanie danler

[diaryoftruequotes]

I wanted to say, My life is full. I chose this life because it's a constant assault of color and taste and light and it's raw and ugly and fast and it's mine. And you'll never understand. Until you live it, you don't know.

Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

#quotes #book quotes #Stephanie Danler #Sweetbitter

[aricruz28]

“I still like Dave Matthews Band,” he said. “That’s kind of embarrassing.”

“No,” I said. “Nothing you do is ever embarrassing. You’re not a girl.”

Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler

#words #quotes #prose #writting #literature #girlhood #stephanie danler #sweetbitter

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Stray

By Stephanie Danler.

Design by Luke Bird.

#Stray #Stephanie Danler #Luke Bird #books #book covers

[luxe-pauvre]

BITTER: always a bit unanticipated. Coffee, chocolate, rosemary, citrus rinds, wine. Once, when we were wild, it told us about poison. The mouth still hesitates at each new encounter. We urge it forward, say, Adapt. Now, enjoy it.

Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

#Stephanie Danler #Sweetbitter

[spiritofwhitefire]

“We called them the Nine-to-Fivers. They lived in accordance with nature, waking and sleeping with the cycle of the sun. Mealtimes, business hours, the world conformed to their schedule. The best markets, the A-list concerts, the street fairs, the banner festivities were on Saturdays and Sundays. They sold out movies, art openings, ceramics classes. They had evenings to waste. The watched the Super Bowl, they watched the Oscars, they made reservations for dinner because they ate dinner at a normal time. They brunched, ruthlessly, and read the Sunday Times on Sundays. They moved in crowds that reinforced their citizenship: crowded museums, crowded subways, crowded bars, the city teeming with extras for the movie they starred in.

They were dining, shopping, consuming, unwinding, expanding while we were working, diminishing, being absorbed into their scenery. That is why we -- the Industry People -- got so greedy when the Nine-to-Fivers went to bed.”

-Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

#Stephanie Danler #sweet bitter #quotes #books

[rey-jake-therapist]

Sweetbitter the book vs Sweetbitter the show

There are significant differences between the book that Stephanie Danler wrote in 2016, and the show that was aired two years later... the show was cancelled after 2 seasons so we'll never know if the ending would have also been altered (for the record I don't think that Tess and Jake should have been endgame because Tess acted too much like a spoiled brat and didn't respect his boundaries, but the ending of the book was awful: sleeping with Howard for a stupid job? WTF?!)

Tess was slightly more sympathetic in the show than in the book though she had the same lack of personality problem, and Jake was made likeable in the show while in the book he was... Much more arrogant, openly mysoginistic, pretentious, and low key abusive towards Tess when they dated.

One thing I like in the show is that we see him reading (in a very sexy pose, which doesn't ruin anything...), while in the book he claims he stopped reading after he had "a crisis of faith" (what a bs excuse...).

Tess asks him if it has something to do with the fact that he abandoned his PhD half course, but unfortunately, Jake chooses to ignore her question and we never know what happened! That's one thing I prefer in the book: there, we learn that Jake was a student, in philosophy no less!

#sweetbitter #jake sweetbitter #tom sturridge #Stephanie danler #sweetbitterstarz #Sweetbitter Book

[boysofbooks]

As I started up the stairs to find more straws, Jake was coming down. He brushed the back of his hand against my hand. I stared at it, but my hand looked the same. There had been an explosion, but no collapse. I spent the next five hours sleepwalking, wondering whether he had touched me with intention.

-Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

#boys of books #book quotes #lit quotes #reading quotes #fiction #books #contemporary fiction #sweetbitter #stephanie danler #men written by women #sweetbitter by stephanie danler #stray #literature

[cosmicwhoresimpingismyliving]

Gonna attempt to read one of these books today although I’m probably gonna nap also 😂😭

#sweetbitter book #sweetbitter #coraline #neil gaiman #stephanie danler #too tired #very tired #cat nap #booklust #booklover #book aesthetic #booklife #booklr