“ It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we… Emma Forrest
“ Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing. Emma Forrest
“ It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was… Emma Forrest
“ I say, Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again.Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would… Emma Forrest
“ It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in… Emma Forrest
“ When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to do, and he was mourning us. He was mourning us the whole time. Emma Forrest
“ There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of… Emma Forrest
“ Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame… Emma Forrest
“ Have you ever eaten something appalling for breakfast, something really bad for you, a chocolate cake, and just thought, Fuck it, this is bad, I'd better keep going? Christ, this is making me feel hor… Emma Forrest
“ I will be forever grateful for your presence in my life. I am a much better human being because of you. The experience of loving you, living with you, was the greatest journey of my life thus far. You… Emma Forrest
“ No one knows we're there, no one sees us. We never leave the room. I think about the secret voice you use when you make love. No one but that person will ever hear it. And here, we listen to each othe… Emma Forrest
“ It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're pro… Emma Forrest
“ I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and… Emma Forrest
“ When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have ima… Emma Forrest
“ He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for… Emma Forrest
“ You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay. Emma Forrest
“ No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around. Emma Forrest
