Inner life Quote by Bonnie Greer

“What an effort she made to change me, and when it was clear those surface alterations would never occur, she began to mistake my…

— Pamela Terry

“As a teenager I was both prurient and prudish. I was so full of self-loathing that in my mind it was unthinkable that any…

— David Walliams

“A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself.”

— Lili Wilkinson

“She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly…

— Santa Montefiore

“That girl was the real me. Frightened. Worthless. A terrible friend. Terrible daughter. Well educated but so limited in ideas worth having. Beautiful yet…

— Fisher Amelie

“... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That's…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“She’d just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to…

— Penn Williamson

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

— Wally Lamb

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a…

— Ashlee Willis

“Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only thing that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it, and still…

— William Landay

“The Girl She Was She doesn't feel like herself. Not anymore. she was different once. Now she is like a watered-down version, pale and…

— Lang Leav