Louise Bay > Louise's Quotes

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.”
― Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

“I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.”
― Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

“So,” I said. “Not ready to settle down, then?” “Definitely not.” His smile pulled up one corner of his mouth and he looked completely destructive. My heart and lady bits would not survive a night with this man. Good thing that’s not even an option, vagina. Stand down.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Player

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl.”
― Louise Bagshawe

“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
― Carrie Fisher

“I don’t get to speak?”
“Not yet.”
“Then when?”
“When I’ve fucked you so hard you’ve forgotten what you wanted to say.”
― Louise Bay, Autumn in London

“If you’re fucking me, you’re not fucking anyone else.”
“Babe, I’ve never even mentioned a threesome.”
― Louise Bay, Autumn in London

“Yes. Just. Like. That,” she breathed.”
― Louise Bay, Autumn in London

“Give me a break, beautiful, my balls are already blue.” He groaned.”
― Louise Bay, Autumn in London

“You can’t hold everybody to your high standards, or you’re going yo spend your whole life disappointed.”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part One

“But that’s why we need rules. And number one has got to be no orgasms in the office.”
― Louise Bay, Autumn in London

“You have my heart, so bring it back safely.”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part Two

“There’s nothing worse than the non-apology apology. Either apologise and mean it, or don’t bother.”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part One

“Shit. I liked her. Shit. I really liked her.”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part One

“Jesus Haven, I'm going to brush your hair. Why do you think I might hit you with the hairbrush?’
‘I don’t know what you’re into. I’ve read Fifty Shades of Grey.’
‘What, and he hits her with a hairbrush?”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part One

“I liked that he wanted to know things about me. That he was interested enough to keep this up. It was like our own private game, and somehow he made me feel safe, like I could answer truthfully and nothing bad would happen.”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part One

“You think consistently insulting me is professional?”
― Louise Bay, What the Lightning Sees: Part One

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

“I savored every yes, every more, every oh, every there, every please. I wanted every one of her words. I knew what it was not to have them— I’d never take them for granted.”
― Louise Bay, Calling Me Away

“The nice stuff is reserved just for you. I’m an asshole to everyone else.”
― Louise Bay, New Year in Manhattan

“I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.”
― Louise Bay, Calling Me Back

“I pitied any girl dumb enough to fuck Max King. Which, apparently, included me.”
― Louise Bay, King of Wall Street

“I’m fucking you. You’re not fucking me.” I nudged her knees wide with my legs and pushed into her.”
― Louise Bay, King of Wall Street

“I groaned. “You can’t question me on stuff I say while I’m fucking.”
― Louise Bay, King of Wall Street