The Austen Playbook Quotes

“We’re all a hundred different things at once. A different person to everyone who knows us. And there are very few people we’ll ever love and trust enough to let them have—well, as much of the whole of ourselves as another person can know.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“Whenever I think I know the story, you turn the page on me.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“It’s the same with everyone, isn’t it? We’re all a hundred different things at once. A different person to everyone who knows us. And there are very few people we’ll ever love and trust enough to let them have—well, as much of the whole of ourselves as another person can know.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“My longest relationship was nine days, and even I know that you don’t keep shit from your bird. But”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“For all his interest in history and the art and literature of the past, Freddy realised, Griff would always prioritise the present and the future.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“I like to make people happy, I like to hear laughter and see them leave smiling and humming the songs. I like popular fiction of all kinds, and I think it’s just as important as the lit that gets taught in class.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“It was a truth universally acknowledged that an actor in a rut must be in want of a spot of murder, mayhem, and true love.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“Yeah, well, no two people will ever see or remember someone in the same way. We're all the product of other people's biases.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook

“With every nonscripted word Freddy spoke, every spontaneous move she made, she became a real person, not the half-fictional character that all human beings were to most of the world around them. He crossed paths with people every day, he worked with them, occasionally he was physically intimate with them, but in almost every case, they were and would always be a construct. Comprised of the front they put on, the curated side of themselves that they allowed to be seen in public, and his own projection and judgment, what he expected them to be and therefore what he saw. There were few people he would ever really know, see as they were and not through a hundred different filters of perception.”
― Lucy Parker, The Austen Playbook