Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you… — Emma Forrest Alive Copy Share Image
“I never lie ― I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies.… — Emma Forrest Addiction 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
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
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 Ends 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 eye Copy Share Image
Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person,… — Emma Forrest Brain Copy Share Image
It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which… — Emma Forrest Benign 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 Mean Copy Share Image
I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't… — Emma Forrest Crazy Copy Share Image
It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs… — Emma Forrest Cartoon Copy Share Image
“I think about pasta in the shape of Hello Kitty, stockings with diamond seams up the back, Marilyn's crumbling cake-mascara, and Liz… — Emma Forrest White hair 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 think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks… — Emma Forrest Beautiful Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in my recurring dreams, before I was diagnosed, iconic people would either be good or evil figures.… — Emma Forrest Be good 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 Hope Copy Share Image
“From the time I met him, he left me little clues of a man, a trail of bread crumbs to a gingerbread… — Emma Forrest Bread crumbs 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
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
I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls. — Emma Forrest Believe 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 Enough 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
“In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . .… — Emma Forrest Humor Copy Share Image
No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around. — Emma Forrest Looks Copy Share Image
