Casinos Quote by Joan Didion

“A woman crossed the street below, beautifully dressed in what appeared to be a beige cashmere blazer, gray pants, and six-inch heels. She walked…

— Annabel Monaghan

“off, she staggered to the bathroom, through three sets of doors and two stairwells and thinking she must have gone wrong because next she…

— Victoria Fox

“One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in…

— Inna Swinton

“I watched her, a tall girl with long hair so black that under the stage lighting it coruscated like moonlit liquid. It cascaded in…

— Barry Eisler

“I recall how the flash of her glowing dress against my closing eyelids was like the neon glow of hotels flashing VACANCY VACANCY on…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child…

— Steve Toltz

“I played baccarat at the upscale Bellagio; roulette at the off-strip Rio; craps at the fading Riviera, whose attempts to match the gayness and…

— Barry Eisler

“If there was a dress that could make a fashion-appreciative girl out of me, this was it. The colors shimmered from gunmetal to pewter,…

— Anouska Knight

“The girls here are so young. One of them twines her fingers into mine, her hand so small I could crush it. There are…

— Karen Kao

“I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimble like the World…

— Sasha Graham

“The wind funnelled down the covered platform, jostling the passengers and tearing at their clothes. A woman's scarf whipped by overhead, somersaulting as if…

— Philip Sington

“It took a while to shoot the scene by the coconut stall at the fun fair, so Michelle (Mary) and I had a competition.…

— Jessica Fellowes