Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married Quotes
"I had expected a short-lived, passionate, roller-coaster of an affair, where my nerves would be stretched to the snapping point waiting for his call; my whole body flooded with ecstasy when he did call."
"It’s upsetting when the nice guy you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it’s nearly as bad when the guy that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice."
"Why was I comfortable only when I was being ill-treated?"
"Then I realized that the saying 'Treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen' had been around for hundreds of years. And I relaxed—after all, I didn’t make the rules."
"So what if my ideal man was a selfish, dependable, unfaithful, loyal, treacherous, loving flirt who thought the world of me, never called when he said he would, made me feel like the most special woman in the universe and flirted with all my friends?"
"I spent a couple of days wondering why I liked the guys who weren’t nice to me? Why couldn’t I like the ones who were?"
"I began to feel strangely short-changed by life."
"I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little."
"I had expected disrespect and instead got devotion, I had expected infidelity and instead got commitment, I had expected upheaval and instead got predictability."
"I see," I said. "So he’s going to be poor and ugly."
"The thought of a tiny chilled hand, or of the other mitten, all alone without its mate was so poignant that I cried wet, hot, choking tears every time I saw it."
"Mine was no ordinary depression, oh no, mine was the super, deluxe, top-of-the-range, no-expense-spared version."
"I wanted to banish depression entirely from my life, but had to be content with just stemming it by constantly reinforcing my emotional sandbags."
"I cried at every piece of news that I heard or saw—car crashes, famines, wars, programs about AIDS victims, stories of mothers dying and leaving young children, reports on battered wives, interviews with men who had been laid off in their thousands from coalmines and knew that even though they were only forty they would never work again, newspaper articles about families of six who had to feed themselves on fifty pounds a week, pictures of neglected donkeys."
"I had learned many strange and wondrous things—I was amazed to hear that the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, that i comes before e, except and only except after c, that if I began a letter with 'Dear Sir' and ended it with 'Yours sincerely' that the world would come crashing to an immediate end."
"I had the admirable skill of being able to locate a tragedy—however small—in absolutely anything."
"I still felt that we were all doomed and that the future was a vast wasteland of bleak greyness, but that it mightn’t hurt if I got up for half an hour to watch some TV."
"I didn’t really know what to say and conversation remained subdued until eventually we reached civilization again."
"How come she’d never met him before? She’s been married for years."
"Honestly, Lucy, you have such an overactive imagination."
"There’s something wrong with Hetty and Dick."
"We weren’t wrong to get our tarot cards read, but we weren’t supposed to take it seriously."
"Because Hetty has real problems with her marriage."
"You’re just afraid to admit that the predictions have come true for me and Meredia and Hetty."
"I don’t want to talk to anyone. I’m not taking this call."
"The day you come home to me and tell me that you’ve got some decent man to marry you, that’ll be a great joke."
"I'm sorry I told you now. You're not going to like it."
"Nine hundred years. But they hadn’t invented cans of Guinness nine hundred years ago."
"There’s only one thing worse than your boyfriend and roommates not liking each other and that’s when they like each other a bit too much."
"It’s just that I had a great feed of class A drugs earlier this evening, and I’m not quite myself."
"My heart leaped. Nobody, nobody, had ever asked me that before and that was exactly how I felt for huge chunks of my life."
"I think I am, even though a lot of the time, I’m not sure."
"You’re a most unusual woman, Lucy Sullivan. A most perceptive woman, if I may say so."
"No woman has ever said that about me before."
"You won’t like what I’m going to tell you, but I’m morally bound to tell you anyway."
"My mother would hate Gus. The good had gone out of the evening slightly."
"It’s not what you think, I explained eagerly. It’s not as if he’s lazy. He’s a musician and work is hard to come by."
"You’re such peasants, keeping your booze on your bookcase."
"I have the utmost respect for anyone willing to endure financial hardship for the sake of his art."
"To thine own self be true, as our friend Billy Shakespeare was forever telling me."
"If I hadn’t been so negative, I wouldn’t have wanted to kill myself and the whole discussion would be moot anyway."
"That’s because I’m not upset; I like men to take things slowly, men who want to get to know me before they sleep with me."
"Men with come-to-bed eyes, men with big thighs and hairy chests and huge unshaven jaws, men who got erections six times an hour, men who smelled of sweat and salt and sex."
"I may have won the battle, but there was, as yet, no sign of me winning the war."
"You can't depend on karma to work properly. So, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
"I knew there was no point in asking if he had called. They both knew how important it was to me."
"I had become the Amish frock of personalities and even I had lost interest in myself."
"He had charmed his way into my heart, then, when I wasn’t looking, had stolen my emotional fixtures and fittings."
"Being dropped by Gus was regarded as being my own fault, a result of careless, slipshod behaviour."
"Gus hadn’t phoned me. Every morning I thought I had come to terms with it and every evening I realized I hadn’t."
"I felt as if I was the only person in the whole world sitting in, alone, on a Saturday night."
"We would painstakingly mold him and guide him until he was as sarcastic and cynical as, well, maybe even, Meredia."
"I wouldn’t have liked to live in her head, it must have been a dark, lonely, frightening place."
"You could walk for miles and miles without meeting a single intelligent thought."
"It just means that they think they’re hilarious and they laugh at their own jokes."
"How could you make such a suggestion? You know I can’t get the time off work."
"No way! He sounds like a total loser. A male version of me."
"Supple? I shrieked. Athletic? Adventures? How vile and awful."
"For as long as I lived, I would never go out with a man that I’d met through the personal ads."
"You wouldn’t be interested in weekday afternoon romps in Hampstead with a married couple?"
"I can’t believe you’re doing this to me, Charlotte."
"Hope, that fickle foolish creature, that emotional prodigal son, was making a guest appearance in my life."
"Finally, I felt as if I was outside my body, looking at me and Gus."
"I’m not arguing," I said, "I’m agreeing to disagree."
"Sanity, such as it was, had started its reluctant return to my wayward head."
"We sat beside each other, close but separate, him looking sad, me looking sad."
"I looked at him, wanting to believe him, knowing I couldn’t."
"You stupid bastard," I added, just for insurance.
"I wouldn’t think about it, I decided. I was good at not thinking about unpleasant things."
"I’m good at not thinking about unpleasant things. At the time, I didn’t know just how good I was."
"I felt as though my father had died. In a way he had—the man that I thought had been my father no longer existed."
"Survival was an unpleasant thing to witness. Survival at someone else’s expense was an unpleasant choice to make."
"I had always thought I was a nice person, a kind, generous, selfless person. It was a shock to find that when the chips were down, the kindness and generosity were only a veneer."
"He’s okay, Lucy," Daniel promised me. "He’s being taken care of." "But not by me." I was lacerated by a sense of failure."
"It was January. Everyone was broke and depressed. No one went out much, but I didn’t go out at all."
"I thought about my father constantly, trying to justify leaving him alone. It had come down to a choice between me and him."
"I didn’t like myself very much—although that was nothing new."
"You can’t be afraid forever," he said. "You can’t hide from your feelings, from other people."
"I knew how she felt—I had spent my whole life feeling homesick."