I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not. — Emma Forrest Mistake Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.” — Emma Forrest Children Copy Share Image
Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do. — Emma Forrest Addiction Copy Share Image
I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. — Emma Forrest Biographies Copy Share Image
There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life. — Emma Forrest Good life Copy Share Image
If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. — Emma Forrest Believe 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
You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that… — Emma Forrest Kind Copy Share Image
At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it. — Emma Forrest Blood Copy Share Image
I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space. — Emma Forrest I want you 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 About 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
“[...] at least my face moves when you look at it. At least I know I'm a fool.” — Emma Forrest Face 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
Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me… — Emma Forrest Matter Copy Share Image
He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the… — Emma Forrest Enough Copy Share Image
“When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would… — Emma Forrest Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“The sadness ― the general sadness that squats and pees inside my brain ― isn't over. It never will be. I know how best… — Emma Forrest Depression Copy Share Image
My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my… — Emma Forrest Arms Copy Share Image
When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a… — Emma Forrest Abandoned Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you… — Emma Forrest Answers Copy Share Image
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration,… — Emma Forrest Anger Copy Share Image
It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with… — Emma Forrest Accepting Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You… — Emma Forrest Attractive Copy Share Image
“No one knows we're there, no one sees us. We never leave the room. I think about the secret voice you use… — Emma Forrest Love Copy Share Image
It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment.… — Emma Forrest Accepting Copy Share Image
“Hotel rooms are funny things. They make everything look different. If people have to sleep with each other, sexually or platonically, they… — Emma Forrest 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
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 Add 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
“When I come home from school, I take my Doc Martens off and put on fake satin mules with the marabou trim,… — Emma Forrest Bourbon 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
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
“And if you don’t know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness… — Emma Forrest Identity Copy Share Image
The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends. — Emma Forrest Boyfriend 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