54 Quotes by Louise O'Neill

They always fall asleep afterwards; it’s pathetic how little stamina they have. You didn’t miss much with this one, I can assure you.”Miss much? What is she talking about?“He was adequate,” Flora amends. “Concerned with his own pleasure, and annoyed I didn’t seem to think it all a great honour. Male fragility can be exhausting at times, can it not?

That which we take for granted can so easily be taken away from us, if we do not remain vigilant.

All he is concerned with is that I am the most beautiful daughter of the Sea King. I am a prize to be won, and Zale likes the taste of victory”.

My name is Ceto,” she snaps, pushing herself out of the chair until she towers above me. “It is your father who has insisted on calling me a ‘witch’. That is simply a term that men give women who are not afraid of them, women who refuse to do as they are told.

My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.

It is always there, the sun, even when we cannot see it.

And then they blame us, as men have always blamed women, for prompting their lust, for fuelling their insatiable greed for something they cannot have.

It’s true, I am skinny. My bones jostle underneath my skin, fighting to be the first one to pierce my flesh.

I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace status, polishing the memories carefully until they shine. The need to record my life is as fundamental as my need to breathe. Without MyFace, I’m floating. I have nothing to anchor me down, to prove I exist.