Emma Forrest quotes

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends. (Emma Forrest)
There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life. View quote
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 light. View quote
Emma Forrest
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. View quote
Emma Forrest
If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it. View quote
Emma Forrest
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. View quote
Emma Forrest
I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. View quote
Emma Forrest
Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. View quote
Emma Forrest
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. View quote
Emma Forrest
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. View quote
Emma Forrest
When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by. (Emma Forrest)