109 Quotes by Emma Forrest

I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.

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

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.

Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

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.

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

I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space.

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