Sammy And Juliana In Hollywood Quotes

I wanted to make her forget. I thought that a guy's kisses could make a girl forget all the bad stuff. Sixteen year old boys don't know shit. How could a tongue down a girl's throat make her forget?

The world wasn't all that good to her and she wanted to remind everyone around her, but mostly herself I think, that she was worth something, that the air was hers too, that the ground she walked on was as much hers as it was anybody else's.

Maybe thats why he did heroin, because his dreams were too big.

I wanted to say all those things to her, but I got so caught up in the conversation I was having with myself that I didn't say anything.

There's nothing you can smoke or drink that will make you forget, not one damn thing. And that's sad, Sammy.

Hate could make the wings strong too.

I really did believe that God had planted leaves in our hearts so that we could remember Eden.

I always felt like there was too much of me to stuff into my own flesh. And I wanted to tell her that we who liked words so much, we had so little to say. Julianna was right, words didn't mean as much as I thought.

Someone had named the barrio we lived in Hollywood. Maybe it was a joke, maybe it was a prayer.