The Guest List

by Lucy Foley

life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day.

But it’s possible to hate your body when you’re thin, too. To feel like it’s kept secrets from you. To feel like it’s let you down.

Just because the rest of us don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves, just because we have found a way of managing our feelings – it doesn’t mean they’re not there.

Nowhere on earth could possibly live up to those halcyon days. But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect.

There’s nothing less sexy than a lack of ambition, is there?

never let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story.

In my experience those who have the greatest respect for the rules also take the most enjoyment in breaking them.

when the worst has happened, you rather lose your fear of anything else.