Future Perfect Quotes

“I am the sum of my parts. Everything I’ve ever done and everything I’ve ever achieved and everything I have ever been.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“When you lose your temper, she has always said, you lose credibility.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“Dieting is a messy solution full of what ifs and possibilities and so many pitfalls, a thousand of them, and all of them assignable to personal failures and human weakness.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“Though putting off the inevitable only makes the inevitable loom larger, more dangerous and terrible.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“Know where your skills lie and maximize your talent.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“There are days when everything and everyone looks bright and flawless and washed clean by sunshine. The sun makes it easy to forget that it won’t always be there.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“There really are people in the world who have ready a list of adjectives about a fat person—including lazy , stupid , messy , incompetent —that they are certain describes her before she ever opens her mouth.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“Sometimes I worry that I have poetry in me, the kind that makes you sentimental and sappy and vulnerable.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“I’ll take the word fat, and I’ll keep it next to my heart, and I’ll own it. And I’ll take up the space in the world that I take up and not apologize for it.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“Speculation is worthless.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“I know that the body is smart, and the body is adaptable, and the body will always try to find a way, but we are smarter. We are smarter than our bodies and science has figured out a method, a clumsy method full of hacking and stitching back up, to undo biology and remake it. A messy sewing project that’s designed to circumvent nature, bypass evolution, fix everything that went wrong with your guts somewhere along the way. Because that’s the overall message.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“I am stronger than caffeine.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“It is a feeling of gratitude sometimes when someone cares that much about you. It is hard not to want to live up to those expectations.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect

“She says knowing how to succeed means knowing how the world works and playing the game.”
― Jen Larsen, Future Perfect