"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."

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Source : Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

Emma Forrest

#Tattoo Quotes #Years Quotes #Scar Quotes

“I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.”
“The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.”
“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.”
“Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.”
“I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.”
“An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.”
“I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.”
“As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!”

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