Teach Me Dirty Quotes

“I wanted to believe I didn’t take a breath of her soft hair and didn’t thrill at the way she smelled of apple shampoo and innocence.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“On the contrary,” I said. “You’re making sense. Perfect abstract sense. You’re talking about intuition, and instinct, and that ethereal perception of the world us artists are often blessed with.” I smiled. “Or cursed. It depends how you look at it.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“My heart felt raw and open, and it pained with a need long buried. The need to feel another person beside me. The need to be seen by another person. The need to be known by another person.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Helen’s beauty was so much deeper. She had a beautiful soul, a beautiful, pure spirit. She was exquisitely sensitive, an innocent, a delicate flower blossoming. I was transfixed by her. I was consumed by her. And I was perplexed by how a lust so forbidden could feel so divine.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Guernica was by Picasso.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“If we relied on a sunny disposition to produce our best work, Helen, I think you’d find art galleries would be considerably less impressive affairs.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“There’s a universal law that when your mum asks you if you’re ok you start crying, even if you were ok before.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“The Helen I’d known as a girl fell away from me, and there was another creature in her stead. A creature from the waters, who called me and coaxed me and demanded my soul.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“she was so young, with her whole life stretching out in front of her, and I was reaching the middle of mine. I’d be growing old as she discovered life’s endless possibilities,”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Sometimes people break, Helen. Sometimes they break so badly it’s all they can remember to do just to breathe. And that’s all they do. Breathe. Day after day until they can take a little breath without it hurting. Dreams change in that place. They become about that one little breath, and maybe the one after it…”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“She was worth it, to love so intensely was worth it. A love like that is worth any price.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“I’d grieve all over again, die every single night without question, rather than have lost out on loving a woman like Anna.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“grief is the ultimate price we pay for love. And to grieve so hard means that you have loved so much, so very much.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“What is the point of being afraid of the truth? The truth just is. Like the air just is, and the wind just is, and the sky just is.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“I wanted to pry, dig my way under his skin, until I found the soul of Mr Roberts. Of Mark.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Mark Roberts.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Innocent. The girl was innocent. Yet her sketches were anything but.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“So innocent. An innocent little girl with a sketchbook full of fantasies.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Autumn colours are my favourite. It’s like the world is doing a farewell dance before winter takes its breath. One final explosion, a celebration of life before the world turns grey.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“they never wait, they just knock and come in. It’s not even a proper knock, it’s like a tap and boom, they’re in there. It’s not privacy, it’s more like a cursory announcement.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Art is everything. Without creativity I’m nothing. Without expression my soul would shrivel and die, and I’d be an empty corpse… drifting through the motions. Without creativity there is no soul, but none of them see that. They think life is about work. They think I should sail my dreams down the river in favour of a real job, a real life, like it’s some silly phase I’ll grow out of, like I’ll realise art is a silly nothing pastime and settle down to an average, boring, mundane existence like everyone else. They think I should give it up. They’d never say that… but it’s true…”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“My mouth was dry. Hands clammy at the thought of crossing some invisible line that hadn’t been in place until yesterday. Why was one rainy afternoon in a car such a game changer?”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“She had no idea what a forbidden fruit she was. A peach. A pale, peach, promising the most exquisite sweet nectar. A dirty, vivacious girl, in an innocent and fragile shell.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“I’d never been much of a foot fetishist, but that girl’s ankles were obscenely erotic.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Uniform was never designed to look as good as it did on that girl.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“She listened enthusiastically to a talk on Monet, and applied everything we’d discussed, as if she’d soaked my words through her skin and they’d come out through her fingers.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“One person has feelings for another, then those feelings must be real, right? No matter where they came from. Feelings are real. They won’t be tamed, or bought, or discarded for some rational conclusion someone came up with once. Transference means nothing. Emotions… feelings… mean everything.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“nobody knows. Nobody knows how rotten I feel inside, how all this crazy shit wants to pour out of me, like I can’t contain it. I can’t contain all the feelings in my own body. I love him.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Teenage girls are anything but innocent. Teenage girls are tenacious little vixens, skilled in witchcraft and laced with fairy dust and sin.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty

“Be careful, Mark. You’ve never seen anything like a teenage crush. Those girls will eat you alive.” “They’re just children, tiny beacons of innocence who want popstar boyfriends and pony club.”
― Jade West, Teach Me Dirty