Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You keep describing yourself as this uniquely damaged person, when a lot of it is completely normal. I think you want to feel special - which is fair, who doesn’t - but you won’t allow yourself to feel special in a good way, so you tell yourself you’re especially bad”
“I thought that if i let anyone in, they’d find out what was broken about me. And then not only would they know, i’d know too.”
“The truth is, you like Julian because he enables this perception you have of yourself as a detached person. Plenty of people are willing to offer you intimacy. That terrifies you. You prefer feeling like no one will ever love you.”
“The trouble with my body was that I had to carry it around with me.”
“You broke up with the love of your life because you saw how much power they had to hurt you.”
“you still put more time and energy into showing you don’t love me than anyone has ever put into showing me they do.”
“I have every respect for people who follow their passions, but I prefer stability.”
“I’d been sad in Dublin, decided it was Dublin’s fault, and thought Hong Kong would help.”
“I wanted to explain that to Edith: that holding Julian's hand was like holding a museum pass, and holding hers was like holding a grenade.”
“he did not want to be my boyfriend. That hurt my ego. I wanted other people to care more about me than I did about them.”
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