Diana Reid > Quotes

“The sun no longer burned but soothed, casting the party in a nostalgic glow that rendered the day more beautiful, their youth more perfect, even as it dwindled.”
― Diana Reid, Seeing Other People

“I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way of constantly curating your life even while you’re experiencing it. Otherwise the likeability of our experiences when photographed—like, travels or social events or whatever—becomes the main metric by which our lives are valued. And that’s so arbitrary and depressing, don’t you think?”
― Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

“Surely that's what relationships are: power dynamics.”
― Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

“I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way of constantly curating your life even while you're experiencing it. Otherwise the likeability of our experiences when photographed - like travels, or social events or whatever - becomes the main metric by which our lives are valued. And that's so arbitrary and depressing, don't you think?”
― Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

“It seemed adulthood was not a state of being but a pose she was struggling to hold.”
― Diana Reid, Signs of Damage

“Lovee is a world of its own that lives in the heart, not in the head.”
― Diana Reid

“It's not clear at all," he said. "It's wrong to lie, it's wrong to steal, it's wrong to hurt. But at the end of every class, people are less sure about what what's right and wrong than when they started. That's when I know I've done my job.”
― Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

“Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were still subversive”
― Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

“What a relief it was, to talk to someone you knew so well and had long since stopped judging, so you could get on with the friendly business of judging everyone and everything else.”
― Diana Reid, Signs of Damage