Emma Forrest Quotes

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• There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.
• When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you…
• If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.
• I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.
• When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea…
• At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it.
• Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.
• 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 loved damaged monuments,…
• I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.
• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves…
• 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 it takes some…
• It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation…
• 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 but all-out. If…
• He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the…
• This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They…
• 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 one that is…
• My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs…
• I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne…
• Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.
• You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet…

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