Making Up Quotes

“It’s life, isn’t it? People take a grain of truth and sow an entire field of bullshit.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Somewhere, even the Sith Emperor was looking at this guy’s management style and thinking “Bit harsh.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“As casual lunches went, this one felt more like the subtle tension and underlying subtext of a Hitchcock film.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“With her back to him, she experienced one of those extraordinary moments that only happened at rare intervals, where an invisible crossroads opened up and she was suddenly absolutely convinced that whatever small decision she made next would impact the rest of her life.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Showmanship was one of her biggest strengths onstage. She loved the audience, and they sensed it and loved her in return.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“It was a novelty to see a guy actually wearing a shirt in this building. Pecs aplenty. It would be a good slogan for the theatre’s website.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Best thing about a theatre wedding: plenty of people who were used to partying hard and without shame to show tunes.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“If Lily was a Michelangelo sculpture today, serene and fluid and slightly otherworldly, Trix was a Tamara de Lempicka painting, bright, gorgeous, and edgy, with shadows in her eyes.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“In Leo’s experience, the ceremony was the part of the wedding that you sat through politely before the reception, at which point the day became worthwhile”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Strong, smart people make mistakes. And if the worst thing you ever do is believe in someone who doesn’t deserve to breathe the same air as you, I think you’re doing okay.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“He looked like the “after” shots on an extraordinarily farfetched and unattainable ad for athletic equipment.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Jono is the closest thing I have to a brother, just like Lily is pretty much my sister.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“On a personal level, Leo was provoking and unpredictable, but in his professional sphere he was calm and controlled through every manic moment”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“He’d lost a bit of eloquence since his mouthy youth.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“She was the Night Wraith tonight. Striking. Dangerous. Commander of shadows, figment of countless nightmares.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“He’d drawn her jumping to conclusions. And with the world at her fingertips”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Unlike compliments, which were lovely but ultimately forgettable, insults took root in her psyche for eternity.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Aww.” Scott looked back and forth between them. “Look at you two, with your cute little matching sketchbooks and your burning hatred of mankind.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Leo was usefully blocking the light from shining directly in her eyes. Her own personal eclipse.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“A combination of friendliness and guilt. Like golden retrievers that were happy to have the rest of the fam home, but couldn’t hide the fact that they’d been raiding the pantry.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Each individual hair was particularly springy and upbeat today. To Kill A Mocking Beard. New title for her memoirs.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“Her role in the series seemed to be defined as anonymous twit who was overdue to get her roots dyed, and long may it continue.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“There were probably invisible birds circling his head right now, tweeting lawsuit, lawsuit, almost killed one of your principals, lawsuit.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“So far, surprising exactly nobody, the result was sex, scandal, and spats, cunningly edited to look a lot more interesting than it was.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up

“The golden rule of theatre, always, was to keep going.”
― Lucy Parker, Making Up