Emma Forrest

“People can only do what they can do.”

— Emma Forrest

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

— Emma Forrest

“You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.”

— Emma Forrest

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

— Emma Forrest

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

— Emma Forrest

If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

— Emma Forrest

“Now here I am, seventeen with a bullet.”

— Emma Forrest

“Bad people very often do one good thing.”

— Emma Forrest

“[...] my quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird to those cold, deep patches of sea where people…

— Emma Forrest

“The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.”

— Emma Forrest

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

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

— Emma Forrest

“You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I…

— Emma Forrest

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

— Emma Forrest

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

“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

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

“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

From such a young age, I was raised and have raised myself on film to such an extent, that it has sometimes…

— Emma Forrest

“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

“Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I…

— Emma Forrest

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

I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is…

— Emma Forrest

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six…

— Emma Forrest

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were…

— Emma Forrest

“I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again." "Absolutely…

— Emma Forrest

“I will be forever grateful for your presence in my life. I am a much better human being because of you. The…

— Emma Forrest

“When I come home from school, I take my Doc Martens off and put on fake satin mules with the marabou trim,…

— Emma Forrest

“From the time I met him, he left me little clues of a man, a trail of bread crumbs to a gingerbread…

— Emma Forrest

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

— Emma Forrest

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

— Emma Forrest

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

— Emma Forrest

“There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.”

— Emma Forrest