Still Me Quotes
"You just didn’t get that kind of moustache at home."
"I think I’m feeling a bit odd from standing in that queue."
"It’s something like two o’clock in the morning in normal time, right?"
"I’m going to do something new every week that I’m here and I’m going to say yes."
"Welcome to New York, Shorty! Not lost your dress sense, I see."
"This is Fifth Avenue. Jesus. What have you been doing back in London?"
"Even the women of uncertain years looked as if they’d never heard of a bingo wing, let alone flapped one."
"I looked up and stumbled backwards. Will Traynor stood beside me."
"‘I – no. No.’ I put my hand to my cheek, my eyes locked on his. ‘You – you just look like someone I know. Knew.’"
"‘My dress is wrong, isn’t it?’ she whispered at me. ‘I have made huge mistake.’"
"‘A friend once taught me this. The man I used to work for. He told me to wear my stripy legs with pride.’"
"‘She’ll be so relieved.’ ‘They can be pretty scary, these New York matrons,’ he said."
"‘Problems are problems,’ I said, when it became clear she was expecting me to say something."
"‘I miss my boyfriend.’ I said it as much as anything to reassure myself."
"‘You can’t go out in scuffed shoes, Miss Louisa!’"
"‘I feel like you are more my friend than my assistant,’ she had told me, as we walked back to the apartment."
"You have to learn about dogs if you’re going to handle them correctly."
"I’m praying that that puta doesn’t come back again."
"She’s making you read books about French people who have affairs? Oh, my God. She totally fancies you."
"The only thing keeping me going right now is the thought of you secretly regretting not coming out with me."
"You’d have to sell your house when you got home, just to get them off your back."
"I’m seeing Maria this week? The toilet attendant from that lovely hotel we went to back in August?"
"You can't buy books if you barely got enough to make rent."
"You shut a library, Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope."
"Sometimes, Louisa, I think I cannot do this any more."
"You gotta have places where people can meet and talk and exchange ideas and it not just be about money."
"Every year we have to fight a little harder to keep the community together."
"If the council close it, all those people will have nowhere to go."
"You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are."
"But is never a simple thing, never without cost."
"We both know it is hard to find your place in this world."
"But then I think of my daughter growing up for next ten, fifteen years without me and I … I …"
"I had to do some … Christmas shopping. For Agnes."
"I don’t know. Your house. I can’t go back. Not yet."
"It was a fun night. Hey – just make sure you give the door a really good slam when you leave, okay? Sometimes it doesn’t catch properly. I’ll call you later."
"You have access to the most inner workings of this household. You have keys, credit cards, intimate knowledge of our routines. You are well rewarded for that – because we understand this is a position of responsibility and we rely on you to not betray that responsibility."
"You mustn't worry about me. All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make the difficult choices."
"I think my stomach shrank in that awful place. Probably trying to shut itself off from their abysmal food."
"He thought I had stolen money from them. All I can tell you is that I didn't."
"I didn’t mean to upset you, Margot. I just thought it might be a way forward. You know, with the debts and everything. I just don’t want you to lose your home."
"I wanted so badly to explain myself to him, to regain his goodwill, but how could I?"
"Life had moved on for them as smoothly as if I had never existed."
"You only get one life, right? And you’re happy with Eddie? So why can’t I be happy?"
"Any man lucky enough to be your date shouldn’t give a fig if you come out in a trash bag and galoshes."
"We hardly even knew each other when I came over here."
"I’m fifty-eight years old and I’m good for nothing."
"You’re a good fellow, aren’t you, Dean Martin?"
"I’m an old woman and I’m not going to get an awful lot older."
"I would have changed for you too, Will. And now I understand – you probably knew that all along."
"I thought Frank’s wife was actually quite pleasant, though not a clue how to dress, poor thing."
"I’ll miss the old railway carriage, though. Life was … simple."
"He didn’t even have a bet on that race so it’s not like he’d be headed up to the hereafter feeling gutted that he missed out on his winnings."
"There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be."
"I’m not ready to come home. All my life I’ve ended up looking after other people, fitting myself around what they need, what they wanted."
"I’ve waited nearly thirty years to work out who I’m meant to be."
"I built a house because I needed to believe in the future. But now it’s done and I look around these empty rooms, I feel nothing."
"I would survive if he wasn’t there, I reassured myself. After all, I had survived worse."
"In those last few steps I considered all the ways in which my life was still going to be wonderful."
"The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again."
"When people we love die young it’s a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn’t take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have."
"I thought about how you’re shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason."