28 Quotes by Caroline Calloway

The idea that my life would be something I shared with the public wasn't just something that I assumed - it was something that I actively wanted. I still want it.

If I'm not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don't write about it.

I don't dispute the fact that I ordered too many mason jars. 1,200 Mason jars in a studio apartment is not the hill that I will die on.

I know people think that having a regular publisher is more prestigious, there is even this idea that self-publishing is a result of being snubbed. But self-publishing really appeals to me.

I think it would be hard to find an American who, during their first week at Cambridge didn't genuinely feel like it was fairy tale.

A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.

What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.

I feel like the more serious a life event is that you share on social media, the more ridiculous it sort of becomes, the more you sort of self-trivialize.

In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.