Dandy Smith > Quotes

“Sometimes, the only person worth satisfying is yourself. It’s your life, you’ve got to live it for you.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Don’t be afraid to play the main character in your own life. Don’t be a person that things just happen to because it’s easier than being a person who makes things happen.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Why is it, as a woman, when you gain a partner, you also gain a pile of admin too? Remembering important dates and organising the corresponding gifts and cards for his family. Somehow, women become their partner’s unofficial, unpaid PAs.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“The only thing more valuable than being loved is being known by someone. Truly known. And he knows me so”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“The only thing more valuable than being loved is being known by someone.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Maybe real happiness is living the life you want, the way you want, without worrying about other people’s expectations.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“There are some moments in life you want to keep, to dip into over and over.”
― Dandy Smith, One Small Mistake

“Don’t be afraid to play the main character in your own life.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“That’s the thing about words – once they’re out there, they’re no longer just yours. They hang in the quiet and are plucked like cherries from a tree then, bitter or sweet, they’re devoured.”
― Dandy Smith, One Small Mistake

“No one will ever know you the way a sister does. There’s a special type of magic in being born to the same two people. Of growing up together. In knowing the blood that courses through my veins is the same as the blood that coursed through yours.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“You can love something so much that you hold onto it too tightly and crush it to death.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“friends are like flowers, I have watered and pruned and nurtured my relationship with Florence and let others wilt.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“She was my whole world but I was only a part of hers.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Being told a secret is like being asked to take care of someone’s baby: it’s a burden, but there’s satisfaction in being trusted with something so treasured.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Pairs of women, safe in the knowledge that at the end of every bad date, or party or day, there is a soul out there born of their blood who will love them always.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“That’s the thing with breakups- you aren’t just mourning the person you loved but also the life you planned together. Lost on the wind.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Being loved by you is like being slowly crushed to death,”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Jealousy is a handful of hard, green pebbles in Elinor’s mouth that threaten to break her teeth.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“If all it took to detect a dangerous individual was a few conversations, the world would be a much safer place.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“but I felt the razor blades that laced the space between us; one wrong move would illicit a thousand bloody cuts.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Not that I can throw stones, since, as a woman without a career or children, so much effort is poured into curating the perfect life. Your house must always be pristine because if not, people will wonder what the fuck else you do with your time. Your hosting skills must be tip-top; guests’ glasses should never be empty – like radio, there should never be dead air – and every aspect of the meals you serve must be impeccable because if not, people will wonder what the fuck else you do with your time. Your marriage must be loving and fun, but also meaningful, and you must make sure others know your marriage is loving and fun, but also meaningful, because if not, people will wonder what the fuck else you do with your time. It’s important to note they must know about your fun, loving but also meaningful marriage without you shoving it in their face like a cream pie. It is a pie to be smelt and displayed on a window ledge and admired.”
― Dandy Smith, One Small Mistake

“Some people can’t love without destroying what they care for most,”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Some people can’t love without destroying what they care for most,’ he says.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“Forename, surname, they’re both a part of who you are. Name and identity are interwoven.”
― Dandy Smith, The Perfect Match

“There’s something freeing about taking all those swirly thoughts from your head and storing them elsewhere.”
― Dandy Smith, One Small Mistake

“Eyes downcast,”
― Dandy Smith, The Wedding Vow

“What I need now and what I’ll need always, is a love that washes over me like river water. That soothes. A love I can bathe in.”
― Dandy Smith, One Small Mistake

“The only thing more valuable than being loved is being known by someone. Truly known.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

“sixteen”
― Dandy Smith, One Small Mistake

“Roots keep you anchored to one place and leave you vulnerable, because once they’re chopped away, you’re felled.”
― Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter