Emma Forrest Quotes

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Tattoo, Years, Scar

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Light, Darkness, Kind

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.19, A&C Black

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• 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 but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Dancing, Unhappy

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A lot of the time in my recurring dreams, before I was diagnosed, iconic people would either be good or evil figures. I remember dreaming really basic stuff like trying to navigate the London underground, but then Paul Newman would be the only one who would direct me to the right trains. And I'm trying to remember who would direct me to the wrong ones.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, People, Evil

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

  Emma Forrest

  Get Well, Names, Time Heals

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.172, A&C Black

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• But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

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  Pain, Wine, Sadness

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.17, A&C Black

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• I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

  Emma Forrest

  Men, Needs, Kind

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• There is that doll dress-up quality of adorable teenage girl writer, and I never felt either as adorable as I was supposed to be, or as dark as the rumors, you know, "She must have slept with the editor," and I was like, "Oh my god, I'm still a virgin." It was very strange.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Teenage, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Mean, Blessing

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Loss, Missing, Slipping

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

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  Teenage, Self, Wish

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• Someone asked me the other day, "Oh your story is like Cameron Crowe's, he has the same thing of having been a teenage journalist," but he was a guy and you just add gender into the mix, it's a 16-year-old girl with adults and rock stars, and it's tough.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Teenage, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming.

  Emma Forrest

  Senior, Phones, Citizens

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, Stars, Dirty

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.172, A&C Black

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• My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.

  Emma Forrest

  Frustration, White, Body

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if there had been a net and commenters and I would have been reading them - it was bad enough as it was. To grow up in the media eye, I'm glad it happened, but that was definitely not healthy being around adults all the time.

  Emma Forrest

  Growing Up, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.

  Emma Forrest

  Hate, Kissing, Color

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Cherries In The Snow”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Giving, Madness

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

  Emma Forrest

  Struggle, Envy, Soul

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Crazy, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

  Emma Forrest

  Notebook, Hair, Vogue Magazine

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.30, A&C Black

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• When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

  Emma Forrest

  Hate, Thinking, Voice

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• He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.

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  Turkeys, Knowing, Doe

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.158, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Men, Cartoon, Swagger

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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 it takes some inspiration. Like, sherbet dips, they're a special food. Think of all the additives and coloring and grinding that it takes to create a sherbet dip. But carrots? They're just out there, shrieking, "Hi, we're some carrots! Love us for it!" They never have to prove themselves.

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  Inspiration, Thinking, Dancing

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