Daisy Buchanan > Quotes

“We can't future-proof love. When we're with someone, we're vulnerable. Love is dangerous, and there's no way of doing it safely. There is no condom for the heart. But we can protect ourselves with self love, and the knowledge that we don't need anyone to complete u. We can't be with anyone who makes us feel as though we're not enough on our own.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“We should all seek to surround ourselves with people whom we choose, who choose us back, and make us feel ten times taller than we actually are.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“(...) I'm my very best self when I'm with him, but every day, I want him more than I need him. He taught me that love is patient, love is kind, love is calm and quiet. It's not a music video of big hair, big tears and erotic, electrical storms. It's two people pottering about a small flat making each other coffee. It's waking up every morning and feeling quietly delighted as you smell the sleep on his skin and observe the the way his tufty hair is framed by the pillow. It's sly hands sneaking up jumpers to stroke the silky skin underneath and wanting to share all your big news, bad news and pictures of especially adorable dogs. It's knowing that there's nothing that can't be talked over and solved by a walk to the park or a trip to the pub.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“What would happen if I let myself dream, instead of simply trying to stay out of trouble?”
― Daisy Buchanan, Insatiable

“Growing up is simply a matter of getting to know yourself, and accepting that if you think you’re in the throes of a life crisis, the worst thing you can do is Google it.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“Several conversations I’ve had with my friends about marriage could have taken place in the eighteenth century. The smartest, sanest women I know have conversations about how and when their partners might propose, as if they are rare and temperamental pheasants whose boyfriends may or may not choose to present them with an engagement ring egg.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“The best thing about falling in love with a book is that your relationship with it is separate and unique, but when someone else loves it too, you’re not envious and jealous of their love - you only love each other more”
― Daisy Buchanan, The Sisterhood: Everything My Sisters Taught Me About Loving Women and Being One

“I don’t run because it makes me thinner or hotter. I run because it means that for at least half an hour of the day I’m not worrying about weight loss – I’m busy counting leaf shapes, different shades of green in the trees, and trying to identify bird song.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“I think of being a woman weeping, and of hearing women weeping, sometimes over a sandwich, sometimes in the street, and usually outside offices, behind cubicle doors. As secretly and silently as we are able. Because we’re just not good enough. Because we’re only ever one mistake away from catastrophe and collapse. Because we have too many feelings, and too many ways to fail.”
― Daisy Buchanan, Careering

“And as you get older, you start to believe that just being is enough, and you don’t have to wait to become perfect for your life to start.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up

“Objectively, I know that I’m an adult, and I now have a husband, a healthy credit score and a couple of nice handbags, and all the trappings that, if I were a lady in a book, would convince even the casual reader that I’m real – but I still worry that I’m really Tom Hanks in Big, and one day I’ll wake up, brush my teeth and see a child reflected back at me in the bathroom mirror.”
― Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grown-Up