Ellery Lloyd > Quotes

“We all have versions of ourselves we can bear to look at, versions we prepare for the world’s consumption, that we hope will make ourselves loved, allow us to be forgiven. Versions of our real selves that allow us to live with the things we have done.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“In some respects it was a mistake, as a woman especially, to be really efficient over a long period of time. Because if you made things seem easy, and people had no experience of things not running smoothly, it came to seem that anybody could do it.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“Suddenly everyone on Twitter was well versed on the safety features of the Defender 2020 Electric Land Rover, everyone on Facebook was an expert on the Blackwater Estuary’s currents and tides.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“Maybe that was the point: that at a certain level, certainly as a man, it became a literal expression of your power, that you could wander around looking like that and people would still hang on your every word.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the consequences of their actions.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“It can really rob you of your faith in the human spirit, sometimes, the internet.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“when it comes to online life, women just don’t respond well to other women’s success—if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“Sorry, the Sisterhood, but when it comes to online life, mothers just don’t respond well to other mothers’ success – if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“That if you were a successful man there would always be these women, this particular kind of woman, that would throw herself at you. That it was one of the embarrassments of success, one of the downsides. I guess I just believed them.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“I found that the more "authentic" I was, the more followers I won, and the more those followers "liked" me. If that sounds patronizing, I honestly don't mean it that way. Sorry, the Sisterhood, but when it comes to online life, women just don't respond well to other women's success-if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“an open-plan multilayered interior like something M. C. Escher might have come up with after bingeing on too many copies of Architectural Digest,”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“Because really, isn’t that what power is? A middle-aged Rumpelstiltskin, jumping up and down, visibly out of breath, swinging on a chandelier, and no one daring to laugh. A grown man so cross with an oil painting of an old lady he looks as if he is about to burst the buttons off his shirt, and nobody daring to suggest he might be overreacting just a little.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“The American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt famously differentiates between lies and bullshit. Lies, he claims, are untruths deliberately intended to deceive. Bullshit, on the other hand, comes about when someone has no real interest in whether or not something they are saying is true or false at all.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“... when you give people a mask, that’s when they show you what they really are.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“You make a series of small decisions in your twenties, and they slowly bind you until they become a straitjacket.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“It means worrying. It means caring. It means constantly walking a fine line between joy and terror. It means constantly asking yourself whether you are making the right decisions, and for whose benefit you are really making them. It means being a parent all day every day and all night too, no matter where you are or what else you have going on.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“If Jackson was responsible for the crime, it was clear who was responsible for the cover-up.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“– in fact, the only thing she had ever really questioned was why you would not want to be surrounded by stars. But with no discernible skills in that direction – she couldn’t”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“It was one of those afternoons when time seems not just to be moving quicker than usual, but vanishing in great unexplained leaps and jumps.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“What a revelation, what a relief it had been to realize, at the age of about twelve perhaps, that her mother’s tempers were not actually something you could prevent. That no matter how quietly you walked or how carefully you cleaned up after yourself, or how studiously you tried to avoid attracting her attention, she would always be able to find something to lose her rag about. That did not make it any more pleasant to be in the eye of the storm of course, but what it did mean was that you stopped internalizing any of it.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“... I realized I too had seen terrible sights, lived through awful things, and began to wonder if getting them down on canvas might help to exorcize them from my own nightmares.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

“They call politics showbusiness for ugly people”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“A cocktail so potent it was remarkable he could walk or speak, let alone get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and attempt to operate it.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“I still don’t understand why,’ she said. ‘At first I thought it might be some mad coincidence, when he told us his birthday. Then I saw his birthmarks at the pool, and I knew that it wasn’t. But what I can’t understand is, Ron was paranoid about birth control when I was with him, so why would he want to secretly adopt our son?”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“When you give people a mask, that's when they show you what they really are.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“She felt stupid and ashamed for slipping up so badly, especially as someone who started her career posing the leading questions for exactly the same magazines. But it was the first time in a long time – ever, perhaps – that someone had asked a question and listened to her answer.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“Their marriage had helped a smart and ambitious young actress launch her career, and the lifestyle, the platform, the opportunities she had gained in return were undeniable.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“The indisputable fact that when a man does even the very basics of childcare, however awkwardly, ineptly, or begrudgingly, he gets applauded for it. Whereas when a woman walks down”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“It’s not every day that you discover your whole adult life has been built around an elaborate practical joke.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“Twitter was for sniping and snark; Instagram was a friendly space for pretty pictures and smiley faces.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her