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
“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
“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
“When I come to the end of my life ― when I come to the real end, at the right time, my mind… — Emma Forrest Death Copy Share Image
“He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well… — Emma Forrest Astronomy Copy Share Image
It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed.… — Emma Forrest Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“I wanted to know how ugly I could get, how ruined and ugly and spoiled, before they stopped trying to fuck me.… — Emma Forrest Know Ugly Copy Share Image
When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved… — Emma Forrest Blue Copy Share Image
What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is… — Emma Forrest Fear Copy Share Image
Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're… — Emma Forrest Answers Copy Share Image
He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And… — Emma Forrest Barack 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 Add 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
“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
When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work… — Emma Forrest Hate Copy Share Image
When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear,… — Emma Forrest Ate Copy Share Image
We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth,… — Emma Forrest Astronomy 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
“At the exit, they sell home-made soap with the evil eye attached, to protect yourself from people who'd wish you ill. I… — Emma Forrest Evil 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 Deliberately 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 Adorable 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
“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 Filthy 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
“Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I… — Emma Forrest Barack obama 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
When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of… — Emma Forrest Bored Copy Share Image
“Funny. The blazer, skirt and tie become automatically sexy the minute you leave school when you're eighteen or nineteen and pull it… — Emma Forrest Fashion Copy Share Image
