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1 " What I didn’t tell her, what I don’t tell her, is that it’s not a writer I want to be, but the girl in the book. That the real reason I read – the only reason I read – is because I am imagining myself on the pages, trying to narrate a life for myself more ordered and more accomplished than the one I’m living. "
― Joanna Nadin , The Queen of Bloody Everything
2 " It is the hope, they say, that ruins you, for hope rides bareback on disappointment, blows raspberries and jeers I told you so. "
3 " the tick-tock tedium of double physics. "
4 " the only person stopping Edie paint is Edie. Self-sabotage, darling. She’s too bloody scared to find out she’s shit. "
5 " Believed that art, like literature, was channelled from a higher plane, from the gods, into the chosen ones, the golden children, the touched. Now I understand that it is as much craft as art; that the only gods ruling whether we succeed or fail are our own inner demons. There is no mysticism, no witchcraft. Just hard graft and the ability to ignore the devil who whispers in our ear, you’re not good enough. "
6 " Just don’t come running to me when it all goes tits up.’ ‘I won’t,’ I say. ‘Because it won’t, because there are no tits involved. "
7 " It’s the absence of breeding, along with an utter abundance of everything else, particularly wit, cleavage, and ability to drink. "
