Frances Vick > Quotes

“Keep your confidence up. Read. Mostly though, you have to sit down each day for a few hours and write whether you feel like it or not - don't wait for inspiration. Writing is a job. Do your research. All that research will give your novel an edge, because you know what you're writing about, it will be authentic. Expect disappointment - your manuscript WILL be rejected - you'll have to develop a thick skin. But if you stick with it and write with honesty, energy and originality, you'll succeed.”
― Frances Vick

“Was this still Home? Home is where the heart dies. Home is where the hatred lies. You can’t go home again.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“I AM NOT A BAD PERSON FOR PUTTING ME FIRST. That’s what I want to leave you with today. Write it down, on your hand, spell it out in fridge magnets, send yourself an email – do whatever you want to tell yourself that today, OK? You are important. You deserve a space in the world. You can come first.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“He doesn’t have a Freddie.’ ‘Not sure he wants a Freddie.’ ‘Everyone wants a Freddie.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“Proud and loved and warm.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“I try to earn love by being ‘useful’, ‘kind’, ‘reliable’ and ‘a good listener’. Selflessness is the currency I use to buy acceptance and avoid rejection.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“When you look after a relative, when you’re a carer, you’re so removed from other people. You exist in a realm of sickness, age, worry. It’s debilitating.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“She was wonderful. She was tall, like me, and lean. She looked like someone who ran, someone who worked out, even though she didn’t. I’ve inherited that from her. I’m very lucky.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“When you’ve experienced abuse, it’s very difficult to understand safety, permanence, comfort. When you’ve experienced abuse, it colours everything, alters your perceptions. To this day I can’t, hand on heart, say I feel safe.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“A moment of violent release, of drunken rage, and something beautiful is debased, the darkness advances.”
― Frances Vick, Bad Little Girl

“that they wanted to see me. A lie of omission is still a lie.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“I did Bring Myself Up. I am self-made. But, sometimes – often – especially now, I feel like a child’s first attempt at pottery – all misshapen and dented. The kind of thing only a mother would be proud of. Let me tell you about my mum.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“A smile says you’re in control. A smile hides the ruin within. A smile buys time.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“Maybe your mind waits until you’re safe to process all the unsafe memories?”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“What does a person think about on the morning their mother dies? What will I remember? Some people get a call from a relative, or the hospital. Some people are there, at the deathbed, to hear, miss, hate or cherish those last moments. I didn’t get any of that.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“The truth is the only thing that will set you free.”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“slightly gin-coherent,”
― Frances Vick, Liars

“I always felt that if I did the right thing, that if I was always polite and kind, well, then I’d be rewarded. In some way. But, it never happened. I just, people just, expected me to always be like that. It becomes your role, doesn’t it? And so you’re never really valued.’ Marianne’s”
― Frances Vick, Bad Little Girl