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Emma Forrest is a renowned British journalist recognized for her work across print and broadcast media. Born on December 26, 1976, she has gained attention for her incisive and sometimes contentious writing. Forrest has contributed to a variety of publications, including The Guardian and The Observer, where she has covered a wide array of subjects, from personal essays to cultural analysis.

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“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 me. It was all I had.”

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Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.”

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Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“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 is overwhelming.”

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Author: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.”

Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.”

Author:Emma Forrest

“What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.”

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Author:Emma Forrest

“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 knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.”

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Author: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 that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.”

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Author:Emma Forrest

“When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.”

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Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.”

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Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.”

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Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.”

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Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.”

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Author:Emma Forrest

“There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.”

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Author:Emma Forrest

“When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.”

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Book:Cherries In The Snow

Source: Cherries In The Snow

“If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.”

Ifs Knows Giving Believe Madness Who You Are

Book:Your Voice in My Head

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.”

Years Persons Moments Past

Author:Emma Forrest

“When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart.”

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“At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it.”

People Knows Blood Injury Where You Are Self Injury

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.”

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Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.”

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Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.”

I Can Lying Cutting Comfort Injury Self Injury

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

About the Author

Born: December 26, 1976
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 72

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