Making Peace With Paradise Quotes

“The concrete can’t stop the separation of rotor from plane, the separation of father from daughter. There are crashes and then the walking away, the bleeding, and the shaky ride back.”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“I often felt nervous passing through the hallway of my own home, and the Golden State was simply where I lived. For me, there was no California Dreaming. I just was, at the center of it all.”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“A small, 4.8 quake, it was unlikely many other people in my town felt it. But alone in the house, I had shaken alongside the breaking earth, 1920s carnival glass looking on.”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“Even today, with no spaces left on the shelves and walls, my octo-genarian mother builds stock off fanciful garden decor: a patch of copper whirligigs among the crepe myrtles, concrete tortoises creeping around the succulents, a ceramic Mediterranean pot that could house a small family.”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“Only 15-20% of Rossmoor houses are “originals”—structures unchanged from their construction in the 1950s. The land is what’s valuable. People knock down the gingerbread cottages to build Mediterranean villas with no yards between them. I don’t want our family’s house to suffer that transformation.”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl