Emma Forrest Quotes
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, in architecture and in humans.
Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.
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 light.
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 outside.
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 happening as you feel it.
If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.
We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.
No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.
Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.
When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.
My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.
I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.
You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.
I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.
I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.
Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.
Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.
I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.
Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.
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 realize that I was any worse off.
Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.
You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.
When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to do, and he was mourning us. He was mourning us the whole time.
You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.
The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.
I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writingbecause I don't know howmuch longer I can hold on.