Jade

“Do you become conscious of the picture you make if you look like that I wonder, or do you make yourself look like that because you’re conscious of the picture you make? All of a sudden I’m fourteen again. I didn’t even enjoy it the first time round, and I was thin then.”
― Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

“EVIE: (over the sound of pillows being plumped) I’m more related to Mummy than I am to you.
RICHARD: How so?
EVIE: She gave birth to me! From her tummy! (Ruminative pause.) What does the man do to help anyway?
RICHARD: He catches the baby when it comes out, so it doesn’t get all mucky on the floor.”
― Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.”
― Humphrey Bogart