Big Bones Quotes

“People look at bigger people and assume we shouldn't feel the need to ever get hungry because we have enough fat stored up to last us until our dying day. As if we can nibble off our sides like we're made of peach.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“You never really grow up. It's a trick; everybody is wandering around just as lost as a person ahead and the person behind. We are all winging it. You are always waiting for somebody to tell you if you're doing it right but you never know.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Why are we so barbaric?” I ask Dad. “Why do we think we can just take from this planet, pluck at creatures like they belong to us—bake four and twenty blackbirds, kill a squid just to make black pasta, force-feed a duck so we can get a bit of pâté? Why can’t we be resourceful and if we take a creature, respect it, use it, all of it?”
― Laura Dockrill, My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

“We poach eggs. The trick is to use a frying pan with water rather than a big pot; it’s the only way for perfect poached eggs every time. That way you don’t have to crack the egg into a glass first. You just drop it in with confidence. You let the little angel bob around for a while, skimming the scum off the surface with one of those spoons with the holes in it, before placing the egg on a piece of bread to soak up all the unwanted excess water—you don’t want that going on your toast.”
― Laura Dockrill, My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

“Eating is a story of your life, so when people say food is a comfort, they are right in a way; it's always there with you. It's always a friend. Your favourite foods travel with you your whole life, taste everything you do. Even if you're crying over a plate, the plate is still there. Full of hope.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Maybe you don't even need a man to come in stomping around and being all there. Maybe I could love a woman? Maybe I'll end up with a woman. We are humans. Men and women. You don't know who you're going to fall in love with; we fall in love with a person. Not a sex. And looking around, it seems women are just pretty cool anyway.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Why does exercise feel so alien to me anyway? Why doesn't it come naturally to girls like it seems to come to boys?”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“I doubt I could get a tan anyway. I love pyjamas.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“You don't really actually have a choice, it's like you can't get work, so you go into education to then be whacked with a load of debt you can't pay and nobody will even give you a job while you're at college or uni because, errrr... MAYBE you're AT COLLEGE and when you're not there, you're studying or, let's face it, you're getting drunk. It's a trap. Then ONCE you get your qualifications all the jobs are taken or have been cut and then you're just there, trying to get the same job you applied for all those years back, when you were sixteen, just this time you're way too overqualified and broke. Unless you're parents are loaded or you come up with some amazing idea and become a millionaire, or win the lottery... you're screwed. A millionaire isn't even a millionaire any more. You know how long a million pounds lasts in London these days? Zilcho nilcho.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“Jobs are so tight anyway these days, that you're not even just going against people your own age any more. Like, you could be going for a job at a clothes shop that like a forty-five-year-old mum is going for too.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“How are you meant to know when you're a kid for the rest of your life? You choose your subjects for your exams when you're SO young without realising that this exam results could shape the rest of your whole future. It's bonkers.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones

“I don't mean to scare myself but leaving school is like leaving the womb for the second time.”
― Laura Dockrill, Big Bones