If you have boobs, you have to show, like, "These are boobs. This isn't cellulite. "
It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.
It's kind of funny. . . the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary. . . But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on. . . And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there.
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story.
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.
And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault. " "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb. " Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.