Julia O'Donnell

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night...”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road