109 Quotes by Emma Forrest

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.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

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.

I like the cuts – they comfort me – I can’t lie.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

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.

Of course he freaked me out. Of course it’s nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn’t. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.

When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I’m completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I’m unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart.