#FashionVictim Quotes

“It’s fashion. No one really gets along.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“My need for attention was going to ruin me. I had to play it cool. I drew a heart on his board. See? Nothing but love and positive vibes.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I’d done it, I killed her, but it didn’t feel like I had. You know that feeling? Like when you unplug your flatiron but then aren’t sure you did?”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Friendship breakups are so much harder than romantic ones. Friends are supposed to be there for you forever. That’s what all the books and movies said. In reality, they betray you. They hurt you. They blackmail you. Everyone is out for herself. Your friends will all knife you in the back eventually.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“She affected a faux Continental accent for good measure—it was the fashion voice. Women of a certain age in the industry all had it. Somehow, going to Paris four times a year meant they’d “studied” abroad.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Everyone dressed in their best event attire. Fashion event, not normal event. I even wore Alexander McQueen, this season. (Sarah laughed at me. “You don’t have to be so damned goth!”)”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“But right now, I felt depressed. This must be what that postpartum shit was all about. I’d given birth to a masterpiece, and now I was bored.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“It was strange that the girl couldn’t remember what she had for lunch yet somehow knew every designer’s phone number by heart.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“This was what friendship was: hugs, shopping, and some major lies.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“That night I set the building on fire and killed everyone inside. Just kidding. I watched three back-to-back episodes of Law & Order. A girl needed a release. It was all work and no play lately.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Style bloggers were just so impermanent these days. One day they’re on top of the world, the next, they’re toe up in the morgue.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Maybe next time someone helps you like I did, you won’t be such an ungrateful bitch. Oh, Merry Christmas.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Jack was fun, I liked him. And now I had to kill him. Why was making friends so hard as an adult?”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“You know what they say—if you can’t join them, beat them.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Bloody Sarah, fashion killer. God, it sounded so good. Sarah could make anything sound good.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Crime shows make you think every homicide will be solved thanks to a stray hair, a random skin cell. It wasn’t real. Nothing was as advanced as what we saw on TV.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Frantically, I mouthed WWMKAAD (What would Mary-Kate and Ashley do?) to myself over and over until the rage subsided a bit.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Kill them with kindness and enthusiasm if you can’t kill them at all.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I’d even gotten her lunch for her, carrying it like a pathetic assistant while she whimpered about her arm. I didn’t even spit in it. I wanted to. (Imagine watching her eat something that came from inside me. Oh, heaven.)”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Worse than that, she was blaming me for Lisa’s death. Me? As if. She should be blaming Lisa. No, she should be thanking me—Lisa wore veils.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“This was life; shit happens. You either dealt with it and went back to wearing Gucci, or you curled up in a ball and waited to die. Only the strong survived.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“We’re considering it suspicious for now. Why didn’t anyone report her missing? She’d been dead for a few days.” A full week, actually. But who was counting?”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“She was found in her apartment yesterday. Dead.” About time.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I wanted her to say to me that I was perfect, I was everything she wanted in a friend. There’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I wondered what would shut her up the fastest: smashing her head through the glass window or agreeing with her. I decided to go with the latter. Why ruin her pretty face?”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I was desperate for a Sarah win. But the more I craved it, the more annoyed I got. At Sarah, not myself. She would never be satisfied. I glanced at my Instagrammed selfie from the salon. My hair looked good, dammit. What would it take for Sarah Taft to tell me I was perfect?”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Jokes were essential. I liked having them with BFFs. Meredith and I had one. We would always point out a boy and say, “That’s who you’re gonna marry.” And then laugh until we cried. She always picked the ugliest ones for me. She was such a bitch.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“Fashion people never let you forget that you don’t belong.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I wanted to devise a torture device that made Celia ride until she died. Or better yet, start my own class: Psycho Cycle. It’d be the ideal workout for today’s woman: half the class has to get away from crazed killers (spoiler alert: they die), and the rest of us come out looking like Kaia Gerber. Million-dollar idea.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim

“I wanted to punch her. I wanted to rip her blown-out-to-perfection blonde hair until she was bloody and bald. I wanted her to say I was stunning and gorgeous, her ideal vision of a best friend.”
― Amina Akhtar, #FashionVictim