The Knockoff

by Lucy Sykes

“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is quick. Style is forever.”

Why not be nice? It wasn’t really any harder than being mean.

“It makes me sound like a seventies porn star with a particularly good bikini wax.

When you’re on top of the world, getting out of bed is such a simple thing. When life makes a wrong turn, just pulling off the covers can be the hardest thing you do all day.

“The Internet is all one big made-up word,” Rashid said. “What do you think Google and Twitter are? They’re baby talk. It’s all about how you own that baby talk.”

“Love what you do, darling, otherwise what’s the fucking point,”

“Life is funny, you know. It isn’t a running text. It has chapters. You might have a very different ending than the one you imagined.”

“Everything looks better on Instagram, doesn’t it?” Aerin said. “Isn’t that what all that is for…the version of ourselves we wish we felt like all the time.