Laura Dockrill > Quotes

“You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character''s life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live.”
― Laura Dockrill, Lorali

“You never really grow up. It's a trick; everybody is wandering around just as lost as a person ahead and the person behind. We are all winging it. You are always waiting for somebody to tell you if you're doing it right but you never know.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.”
― Laura Dockrill, Lorali

“People look at bigger people and assume we shouldn't feel the need to ever get hungry because we have enough fat stored up to last us until our dying day. As if we can nibble off our sides like we're made of peach.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“I doubt I could get a tan anyway. I love pyjamas.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“How are you meant to know when you're a kid for the rest of your life? You choose your subjects for your exams when you're SO young without realising that this exam results could shape the rest of your whole future. It's bonkers.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Maybe you don't even need a man to come in stomping around and being all there. Maybe I could love a woman? Maybe I'll end up with a woman. We are humans. Men and women. You don't know who you're going to fall in love with; we fall in love with a person. Not a sex. And looking around, it seems women are just pretty cool anyway.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Why are we so barbaric?” I ask Dad. “Why do we think we can just take from this planet, pluck at creatures like they belong to us—bake four and twenty blackbirds, kill a squid just to make black pasta, force-feed a duck so we can get a bit of pâté? Why can’t we be resourceful and if we take a creature, respect it, use it, all of it?”
― Laura Dockrill, My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

“Do we hold on to the person we love as the person we see before us today or is it the moment we decided we loved them?”
― Laura Dockrill

“Have you never had cake before?' he asks me.
I get nervous. Is cake a really human thing? Does everybody eat it? Would it show me up as a stranger if I say no?”
― Laura Dockrill

“poo)”
― Laura Dockrill, Sorry About Me

“camed”
― Laura Dockrill, Oh, Obviously

“You don't really actually have a choice, it's like you can't get work, so you go into education to then be whacked with a load of debt you can't pay and nobody will even give you a job while you're at college or uni because, errrr... MAYBE you're AT COLLEGE and when you're not there, you're studying or, let's face it, you're getting drunk. It's a trap. Then ONCE you get your qualifications all the jobs are taken or have been cut and then you're just there, trying to get the same job you applied for all those years back, when you were sixteen, just this time you're way too overqualified and broke. Unless you're parents are loaded or you come up with some amazing idea and become a millionaire, or win the lottery... you're screwed. A millionaire isn't even a millionaire any more. You know how long a million pounds lasts in London these days? Zilcho nilcho.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Jobs are so tight anyway these days, that you're not even just going against people your own age any more. Like, you could be going for a job at a clothes shop that like a forty-five-year-old mum is going for too.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“...am I terrified that it will never be me? That I’ll end up a shadowy ghoul with a hungry soul, wailing, haunting the earth’s crust, picking at the thorny shrubs of the dirt at the end of the world, unloved? Or worse, that it
will be me, but I’ll be marrying the wrong person. Not the love of my life.
That the fairy tale will be wrong? Am I crying because I know this is something I’ll never have? Unless I settle. Or lie. Or marry myself.”
― Laura Dockrill, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

“Not that it matters an awful amount in the grand play of things.
And it is play. All of it.
It's not real.
You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character's life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live.”
― Laura Dockrill, Lorali

“But eating is a story of your life, so when people say food is a comfort, they are right in a way; it's always there with you. It's always a friend. Your Favourite foods travel with you your whole life, taste everything you do.Even if you're crying over a plate, the plate is still there. Full of hope.”
― Laura Dockrill

“We poach eggs. The trick is to use a frying pan with water rather than a big pot; it’s the only way for perfect poached eggs every time. That way you don’t have to crack the egg into a glass first. You just drop it in with confidence. You let the little angel bob around for a while, skimming the scum off the surface with one of those spoons with the holes in it, before placing the egg on a piece of bread to soak up all the unwanted excess water—you don’t want that going on your toast.”
― Laura Dockrill, My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

“I don't mean to scare myself but leaving school is like leaving the womb for the second time.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“How is anybody affording this lifestyle
anyway? Financially. Physically. Emotionally?”
― Laura Dockrill, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

“Eating is a story of your life, so when people say food is a comfort, they are right in a way; it's always there with you. It's always a friend. Your favourite foods travel with you your whole life, taste everything you do. Even if you're crying over a plate, the plate is still there. Full of hope.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Why does exercise feel so alien to me anyway? Why doesn't it come naturally to girls like it seems to come to boys?”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“...once love arrives, draped in lights and hydrangeas, the fairy tale bursts into life: stardust.”
― Laura Dockrill, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You