Pretty Face Quotes

“He drained a bar dry last night and is managing to speak in iambic pentameter. I have two glasses of wine with dinner and I can barely decipher the TV Guide the next day. I’m so freaking old.” “Join”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“But life wasn’t a film. Problems didn’t disappear and “The End” wasn’t emblazoned across a lingering embrace the moment people succumbed to the inevitable and found the right moment to verbalise it. He”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Your body and mind is your own. Your happiness is your responsibility and your right.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“You aren’t born half a person, doomed to drift through life unfulfilled until you find someone who can validate you.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“It didn’t feel fleeting and solely physical. It didn’t feel like infatuation. It felt like...recognition. That”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“You could try being pleasant and malleable," she suggested. "I'd probably find it a complete turn-off. I didn't realize I had this penchant for militant men. It's giving me whole new insights into my personality."
"Militant?"
"I thought it sounded more polite than 'bossy.' No?"
"I'm not bossy."
He actually sounded like he believed that.
"Okay, Captain Von Trapp. Keep telling yourself that."
She'd broken the stern director facade again. He was grinning.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“He looked about as approachable as Darth Maul, but then, unexpectedly, he laughed. A proper, eye-crinkling laugh. And her pathetic, perverse, masochistic little heart went oh―it's you.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“On the English crisis scale, step one was drinking a cup of tea. Forgetting the entire concept of tea was off-the-charts stress.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Still. Proud. Savages play by the rules; Lampreys get things done.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“The man was always overly dramatic. Holding a grudge for decades. All those years pretending to be Lear went to his head.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“As he marched her to the second level, he heard muttering behind him. She really was going to have to work on her vocal range. If she wanted to make an impact when she called someone a “bossy prat,” she needed to project.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Oh, I’m a dog person. I’m pretty sure that what you’re cuddling is the inside of a cushion. Although it sounds like a car alarm, which I admit adds to the confusion.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“It wasn’t an option, being away from home without her favourite books. Her Kindle was great for downtime between scenes at the studio, but when things went tits up, she needed her favourite characters physically in her hands.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“This is Lily Lamprey. You seem to be under the impression that she’s an inanimate object brought into the building for your amusement.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“A long time ago, Lily had owned a Ken Doll. She’d once discovered that putting her thumbs on his neck and applying the exact right amount of pressure beneath his plastic ears caused his head to pop off. It probably wouldn’t work with Savage.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“He was slightly built, freckle-faced, and Luc couldn’t tell if he was actually fifteen years old or if he himself had just become so fucking old that every person under the age of twenty-five looked as if they ought to be at home playing with blocks.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Nothing like working with friends. Everyone appreciated a hint that the Grim Reaper was breathing down their neck the moment they turned forty.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“In the doorway, without looking at her, he dropped a verbal bomb. His voice was so low that it almost went over her head instead of hitting the target on the left side of her chest. "It's second nature to pull apart a performance, isolate and slice out the dead weight, piece it back together. I also know what it feels like when there's that very rare click and it's just―right. It works. From the first line of the first scene." A nerve ticked in his jaw. "It doesn't often happen onstage, and I didn't expect to ever experience it offstage.
She didn't move. Or breathe.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“He texted her back every night, just the single letter: X. A signature. A kiss. A mark on a map, pointing the way to where the good things were.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“If there weren’t a banking high-rise blocking his view, he and Byrne could have looked directly at each other’s mirrored windows like a couple of melodramatic comic book foes.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“People aren’t genetically programmed to repeat their grandparents’ mistakes.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“The moral is usually that an obsessive persecution complex leads to multiple people being skewered.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Luc will turn into a human iceberg and rarely raise his voice, but prepare to defrost your ego with a hairdryer if you screw up in front of him.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“It must be difficult to argue with the personification of a Tickle Me Elmo.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Most people regularly experienced delayed flights and bad customer service, and most people didn’t bounce when they walked.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“The Romantic poets would call it her heart; realistically, it was probably her hormones.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“It was as if someone had left the Gerber Baby out in the sun too long.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“She associated her very few visits to this house with feeling like Jane Eyre going into the Red Room.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Lily was always happy to take the photos and sign anything that wasn’t a body part, and would have done it even if it wasn’t a sensible PR move.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face

“Jocasta was eyeing Lily with approval now. It was the same look of affection that she bestowed on her pet rabbits.”
― Lucy Parker, Pretty Face