Laura Dockrill Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“I doubt I could get a tan anyway. I love pyjamas.”
― 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

“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

“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