Lucy Foley > Quotes

“In my experience, those who have the greatest respect for the rules also take the most enjoyment in breaking them.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“And I'm not worried about it being haunted. I have my own ghosts. I carry them with me wherever I go.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Just because the rest of us don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves, just because we have found a way of managing our feelings – it doesn’t mean they’re not there.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“It’s not about where you came from. What kind of shit might have happened to you in the past. It’s about who you are. What you do with the opportunities life presents to you.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“Marriage is about finding that person you know best in the world. Not how they take their coffee or what their favourite film is or the name of their first cat. It's knowing on a deeper level. It's knowing their soul.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“The rage is growing inside me, overtaking the shock and grief. I can feel it blossoming up behind my ribs. It’s almost a relief, how it obliterates every other feeling in its path.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“It's always better to get it out in the open - even if it seems shameful, even if you feel like people won't understand.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But that’s what being poor does to you; it shortens your childhood. It hardens your ambition.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to become monsters. And sometimes you just get a strong sense about people, and you can’t explain it; you simply know it, in some deeper part of yourself.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.”
― Lucy Foley, The Book of Lost and Found

“If I could cry it might all be better, but I can’t. It’s like an ability I’ve lost, like a language I’ve forgotten.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“I could not explain that I simply wanted someone to love. Wholehearted, unreserved, requited.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“But it is a lot easier to face the day when you know you won't have to face other people and their happiness.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“Life is messy. We all know this. Terrible things happen, I learned that while I was still a child. But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day. But you can control one of them.”
― Lucy Foley

“When he broke up with me, he told me that he would love me forever. But that’s total crap. If you love someone, really, you don’t do anything to hurt them.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“I suppose we all carry around different versions of ourselves”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“If I didn't pay attention, one of those currents could grow into a huge riptide, destroying all my careful planning. And here's another thing I've learned - sometimes the smallest currents are the strongest.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Sometimes,’ I say, ‘I think it’s too difficult to tell the people closest to you. The ones you love.”
― Lucy Foley , The Guest List

“You don't get this. This isn't your moment. You didn't create it. I created it in spite of you.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But it’s possible to hate your body when you’re thin, too. To feel like it’s kept secrets from you. To feel like it’s let you down.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“You know, I read somewhere that sixty percent of us can’t go more than ten minutes without lying. Little slippages: to make ourselves sound better, more attractive, to others. White lies to avoid causing offence. So it’s not like I’ve done anything out of the ordinary. It’s only human.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“Sometimes solitude is the only way to regain your sanity.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“There’s this expression in French. Être bien dans sa peau. To feel good in your own skin.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“Nowhere on earth could possibly live up to those halcyon days. But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Remove all of the distractions, and here, in the silence and the solitude, the demons they have kept at bay catch up with them.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“It’s a beautiful building, but there’s something rotten at its heart. Now he’s discovered it he can smell the stench of it everywhere.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“We can do our family members down as much as we like. But the second an outsider insults them our blood seethes. At the end of the day I don’t like him – but I love him. And I see my own failures in him.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“people are here to do reckless things, stupid things they might later regret, though the point of it all is in not regretting. For the idea of the party is youth.”
― Lucy Foley