The Most Famous Girl in the World Quotes

“There’s no such thing as an innocent billionaire. Anyone who has that much money didn’t get it legally. They’re either exploiting their workers or sleeping with their partners’ wives or scamming their investors. What I was doing was simple: stealing from criminals and keeping money out of their hands. I was a humanitarian.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“Then I’d be unstoppable—able to do what I wanted when I wanted. The most powerful people in the world would owe me one. And I intended to collect.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“Don’t you see? I am nothing but a mirror reflecting the worst versions of themselves. And if I can get away with murder and still be beloved, there’s hope for them yet.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“The women they’d killed in drunken rages. The money they’d stolen using insider tips from their hedge funds. The developing countries they’d sunk by extending their influences. The working class they’d exploited in order to get their products manufactured at low cost while they pocketed billions.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“How am I the final girl right now?” I complain. “The final girl is never brown. Everybody knows that!”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“The narrative I’ve been feeding myself about the way I fit into the world—as a keen observer, witnessing everything but belonging to nothing—hasn’t attuned me to my current reality. If anything, it has dissociated me from it. But Fern and Steph reminded me yesterday that I have a choice to make. I can choose to involve myself in the world, to be active instead of passive. To be a character in my own story instead of just the scribe.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“Hello, my lovelies! I know the media likes to paint me as a villain because I stole a few measly millions from a handful of rich old white men, but a little-known fact about me is that I’m actually quite charitable.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“Only someone who grew up in a life full of uncertainty could be forever drawn to chaos. Someone like me.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“It’s clear to me that people in this city live in two separate worlds…and that the urban planners have intentionally done as much as possible to keep the two isolated from one another.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“So what the flying fuck was Ollie doing driving under the influence with a suspended license at the peak of his career?”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“What the fuck is this, a rom-com? I thought it was a thriller. The author of my life better get their genres straight before I end up the butt of the joke.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“I’ve decrypted three blind items that I think might be about Poppy. One accuses her of yachting, which I’ve gathered is essentially prostitution for rich people and takes places exclusively on yachts”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“And you’re a pompous dickhead,” I say matter-of-factly. “You ruined my story and fucked up your case. And now you’ve ruined my evening, too. You had seriously better stay the hell out of my way this time.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“No. To rest. You’re acting manic.” My face falls. I feel the room”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“That class was twenty percent enlightenment, eighty percent pure horse tranquilizer. I can’t believe we still come to these things. I’m so done with the unbearable whiteness of barre-ing.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“In just a week’s time, Poppy is going to go from a niche subject of public fascination and vitriol to mainstream, respectable Celebrity-with-a-capital-C.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“Influential in every circle he decides to favor with his Midas touch, Rutherford has been credited with preventing three stock market crashes, causing two Hollywood divorces, and rigging one pretty horrific election result.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“I hate Instagram. I hate filters and juice cleanses and overly whitened teeth.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“One day, when every single person I know is dead and anthropologists are excavating our bones and analyzing our skulls, I truly believe they’ll find tiny little holes drilled into our heads where the internet sucked us dry of independent thought.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“The illuminati obviously killed Zarbos. Washington. Hollywood. They’re all in on it. Prob used his blood for some kind of ritual sacrifice.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“When you have so much wealth that you no longer feel the weight of your riches, talking about your socioeconomic status is considered déclassé.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“You’re not my therapist. (That’s Julee. And she fired me last month. Did you know therapists could fire their clients? I sure didn’t.)”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“But I still like to shift the blame elsewhere. Partly because I’m the daughter of Iranian immigrants and was basically raised with a chip on my shoulder. And partly because I’m on the Gen Z–Millennial cusp. Pointing fingers and pouting are our favorite hobbies.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“The Most Famous Girl in the World is an ode to modern celebrity culture, mass conspiracy, bandwagon-jumping, and our ability to see the best in the worst people—and vice versa.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“What’s the point of doing something good for your body if you don’t get to do something bad first?”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“All at once, I hate Simon. Loathe him. Resent him so much for making me want to forgive him by showing me what my life could be like with him in it.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“A date. A fake date. With Simon, my archnemesis. What the fuck is this, a rom-com? I thought it was a thriller.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“It’s almost as if being online twenty-four seven is bad for your mental health,” Fern deadpans. We let out a collective sigh. One day, when every single person I know is dead and anthropologists are excavating our bones and analyzing our skulls, I truly believe they’ll find tiny little holes drilled into our heads where the internet sucked us dry of independent thought.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“Yep, here’s the seventh rule of conspiracy: All politicians actually are scum.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World

“What the fuck is this, a rom-com? I thought it was a thriller.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, The Most Famous Girl in the World