I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not. — Emma Forrest Mistake Copy Share Image
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much. — Emma Forrest Age Copy Share Image
Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I… — Emma Forrest Death Copy Share Image
If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it. — Emma Forrest Darkness Copy Share Image
I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's… — Emma Forrest Darkness Copy Share Image
“[...] my quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird to those cold, deep patches of sea where people… — Emma Forrest Quirks Copy Share Image
I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is… — Emma Forrest Adults Copy Share Image
Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is… — Emma Forrest Bridges Copy Share Image
I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six… — Emma Forrest Culture Copy Share Image
There is that doll dress-up quality of adorable teenage girl writer, and I never felt either as adorable as I was supposed… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Someone asked me the other day, "Oh your story is like Cameron Crowe's, he has the same thing of having been a… — Emma Forrest Gender Copy Share Image
“And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always… — Emma Forrest Architecture Copy Share Image
“We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I… — Emma Forrest Affection Copy Share Image
“It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I… — Emma Forrest Breakup Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate… — Emma Forrest Being unhappy Copy Share Image
I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement? At least… — Emma Forrest Achievement Copy Share Image
You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed… — Emma Forrest Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.” — Emma Forrest Depression Copy Share Image
Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint. — Emma Forrest Childhood Copy Share Image
I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina… — Emma Forrest Moments Copy Share Image
My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“[...] at least my face moves when you look at it. At least I know I'm a fool.” — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . .… — Emma Forrest Hindsight Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs. ” — Emma Forrest Poetry Copy Share Image
I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
From such a young age, I was raised and have raised myself on film to such an extent, that it has sometimes… — Emma Forrest Age Copy Share Image