Emma Forrest Quotes - Page 2

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• At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it.

  Emma Forrest

  Blood, People, Self Injury

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.56, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

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

  Emma Forrest

  Childhood, Disappoint, Generous

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• I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You just watch it play out over and over in the media. It was the English edition of Glamour who were looking for stories of Iraqi war widows, but specified that they had to be attractive.

  Emma Forrest

  War, Thinking, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Killing, Killing Yourself

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.205, A&C Black

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• Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is that every time they think there's no more doors left to walk through in the room, they just keep looking and keep looking until they find one.

  Emma Forrest

  Stars, Thinking, Doors

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Writing, Get Better, Pages

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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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• The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.

  Emma Forrest

  Stars, Truth Is, Reason

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• I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.

  Emma Forrest

  Character, Moon, Two

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• I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.

  Emma Forrest

  Lying, Cutting, Comfort

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Girl, Pain

  Emma Forrest (2011). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Emma Forrest

  Love You, Love Is, Kind

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• 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, Years, People

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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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• Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

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  Voice, Knowing, Dancer

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• Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.

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  Beautiful, Song, Night

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• It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

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  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Ends, Mines

  Emma Forrest (2011). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.195, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

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  Dream, Men, Brain

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.169, A&C Black

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• You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you’re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say “Hey! This toy is broken!” and toss you aside without feeling bad.

  Emma Forrest

  Sexy, Men, Broken

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• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

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  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Sleep, Boys

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