“There is a togetherness in the low-grade annoyances, the permission to share that fleeting intolerance, the striving for something better, the simultaneous ungratefulness and optimism of, “Eh, could be better.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York, Intimacy, Community, Trust, New Yorkers
“It seems like being from here is the most obnoxious thing I could have done, but also it’s probably that I can’t walk down Second Avenue without mentioning my first kiss, when I sneaked into Lit Lounge at 14.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York, New Yorkers, New York Always Pulls Me Back, Nostalgia, First Kisses
“The permission to be fed up with each other is the highest mark, to me, of intimacy and trust.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York, Intimacy, Community, Trust, New Yorkers
“There is always something pulling you back during those brief stints elsewhere: the energy, the pacing of time, family, the golden handcuffs of a good deal on an apartment.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York, New Yorkers, New York Always Pulls Me Back
“The casual anonymity is another facet, the adjacent face of the diamond of intimacy, the way small talk and cute sayings on mugs of coffee are joyously cynical, like how standard it is for spouses to joke about hating each other, or for parents to mockingly roll their eyes about their kids.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York, Intimacy, Community, Trust, New Yorkers
“In the vast mythology of New York, it’s the place you go to become who you always wanted to be.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York, Chasing Dreams, Finding Yourself
“I began to fetishize how unhealthy that isolation was to the point of asceticism.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: Enjoying Being Alone, Fetish of Isolation
“There’s something so freeing about abandoning it all, or maybe just the urge to.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: Leaving It All Behind, The Dream of Starting Over, Leave Society
“To be a true New Yorker, one must love and hate the city in equal measure, and always come back.”— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.comTagged: New York City, New Yorker, What It Means To Be A New Yorker