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Idol QUOTES

1 " I’m not making a statement,’ Lisa said, her face paling. ‘I’m not a celebrity. I don’t live in your world, Sam. I just want to ignore this and things will go back to normal eventually. There’ll be a new scandal and who’s gonna care about some housewife in the suburbs? "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

2 " Can you please stop pretending that we’re friends?’ Lisa pushed her stool away, the feet scraping against the tiled floor. ‘We’re not friends any more. And today is reminding me exactly why. I told you to come at eleven and you just arrived at whatever time suited you. I "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

3 " And all seven hundred of them had done just that. It had been so moving at the time but she could see now that it could be easily misconstrued as something odd, even sinister. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

4 " Much has been made this week of the anonymous allegations against Samantha Miller. I can’t speak to that but I do believe we should have a conversation about Miller’s stranglehold on the wellness industry. Where are the Black gurus? Where are the BIPOC leaders in this space? Why are the most successful teachers of yoga – a spiritual practice originating in ancient India – thin, white women? "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

5 " We’ve all heard the joke – Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man. I say, Lord, give me the career of a mediocre white woman. Because that’s what Samantha Miller is. Samantha Miller, in all her bland, basic glory, is the embodiment of white privilege and I, for one— "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

6 " the board would have done the exact same thing but because I’m a woman, I’m a “bully”. It’s sexism, pure and simple. And why is she coming out of the woodwork now? I fired her, like, two years ago. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

7 " What about what’s fair to me?’ Sam felt tears pricking her eyes. ‘What about what’s fair to real victims? When women like you make false allegations, it just makes everything worse for the rest of us. You have to say the story is bullshit and that you have no idea who wrote the Reddit post. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

8 " I’m a human being,’ she continued. ‘I’m flawed. I’ve never pretended to be anything else. But we put people on pedestals, don’t we? We expect them to be perfect, to be fully enlightened beings. But we’re all human, we all make mistakes. And that’s OK. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

9 " Missed her? Are you kidding me? We have two beautiful children; I built you the house of your fucking dreams. When did you have the time to miss her?’ Something muffled, one of them telling the other shh, she’ll hear. ‘You’ve "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

10 " But they just wanted to protect you; it’s what parents do. I’m the same with Martha and Maya, even though I know they’re gonna make their own stupid mistakes and there’s nothing I can do about it. At least they’ll have each other, like we did. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

11 " She always had to be camera-ready for daytime television slots with highly glossed presenters who would, no doubt, also deny their own visits to the dermatologist, crediting their suspiciously smooth foreheads to eight hours’ sleep a night and good genes. Sam was still attractive, she knew, but only because that was what was demanded of her. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

12 " God, you’re the same as ever. You always did this. You always tried to control her and make sure you were her only friend. And now that you’re back, Lisa doesn’t want to meet up for coffee, she’s too busy to chat at the school gate, she doesn’t want to come to spinning class and sh— "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

13 " It feels right. You know I think the idea of “virginity” is a social construct designed to control female sexuality, but I kinda like the idea of doing it on my birthday. That way, I’ll never forget. I’ll be, like, forty and blowing out my candles and— "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

14 " it? Her publisher hadn’t wanted to hire this space for her book launch. They said it was a waste of money, money that could be used more ‘efficiently’ for marketing, subway posters, targeted ads on Instagram, and she had simply waited until they’d stopped arguing, waving their Excel sheets and projected budgets like white flags, pitching other, cheaper venues, and when they had worn themselves out, she’d smiled sweetly and said, ‘It has to be the Ballroom, I’m afraid. My girls deserve the best. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

15 " And then you act like the last twenty-something years never happened and you’ve no other responsibilities except to be at Samantha Miller’s beck and call. What about the twins? If she "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

16 " that’s actually true – and I don’t believe a word that comes out of your mouth any more – then it’s pathetic, Sam. You’re hung up on something that wasn’t even there in the first place. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

17 " I want to look pure,’ she’d instructed them, ‘it needs to be on brand for the new book’ – but now that she was here, Samantha forgot all of that; the styling choices, the mood boards, the look books. She cared only about her girls. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

18 " The company will go public in a few months, and you’ll be rich enough to retire and never work again. Listen to me.’ Her manager was serious. ‘I’ve lived in this city long enough to know that the only thing these people can’t forgive is poverty. If you have enough money, they’ll forget everything. You’ll be fine. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

19 " That’s right,’ she said. ‘That’s right. I can feel the release of energy in this room and it’s amazing. Can you feel it, my loves? Can you feel your own power? "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol

20 " What about them?’ Jane asked, exasperated. ‘They’ll find some other white woman to project all their hopes on to and make her a god instead. Come on. This is as good a time as any to take a break. "

― Louise O'Neill , Idol