23 Quotes by Josephine Humphreys

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet into the world, girls who kept themselves apart from the world without really knowing what for. Now girls know what for. They menstruate when they are ten, and their dolls are sluts.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure – like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don’t change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.