Lucy-Anne Holmes > Quotes

“You shouldn’t woo anyone so confidently. It’s asking for trouble. But I shouldn’t have let myself be wooed. I knew that fairy tales are for children, that romcoms are fairy tales for adults. And that the higher you fly, the further there is to fall. The bigger the smile, the louder the sob. If you are just a girl standing in front of a boy… don’t, whatever you do, tell him that you love him!”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy

“For example, I might think, Shit, I'm skint. In roughly four and half seconds other thoughts will also have appeared in my head. I can't pay my rent, I'll get evicted, I'll have to get a proper job to get me out of debt, I have no skills, I'll end up in King's Cross giving blow jobs for money, I'm not even very good at those. Then I will start to cry.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“I used to be in a wonderful relationship with a bloke called Simon. We were supposed to live happily ever after. But we didn't. Our wonderful relationship followed the other oft-trod path.
It went tits up.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“I wish I had protected the relationship. I wish I'd nurtured it like a child. Instead I said, ‘Where do you want to play? The building site or the road? And would you like a gun or a knife, or how about both and some solvents?’ So off my relationship toddled into the middle of the M25 with a Pritt Stick up its nose.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“I seemed to be the only person in the whole of Heathrow who had realized the comfort and flexibility afforded by wearing pyjamas on a flight. After years of trying to look smart in the hope of being able to wangle an upgrade I had been elated that I didn't need to bother. So I was travelling in the comfiest clothes that Primark provided.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“Well, aku yakin pasti ada seseorang yang spesial di luar sana untukku.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes

“Ruth could have left me the carry-along case. Taking a boyfriend would have been enough for most. Not Ruth. She wanted luggage too.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“Sare! Why are you giving me your tax face?’
‘I'm not.’
‘You are.’
Pause.
‘Shit, I'll need to do my tax soon.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“Until 1991 it was legal for a wife to be raped by her husband. Let’s fucking well repeat that. Until 1991 a man could rape his wife in the UK (apparently an advanced, humane, developed country).”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, Don't Hold My Head Down

“Ahora quiero algo más, a alguien que no esté atorado en ese concepto binario hombre-mujer, alguien que esté embarcado en un viaje de descubrimiento, de sexualidad.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, Mujeres en la cima del mundo: Lo que piensan las mujeres mientras practican sexo