It Sounded Better in My Head Quotes

“Everyone knows you can't really trust any feeling you have at night - and the later the hour, the less trustworthy it is. Anything you feel after 10pm is suspect, anything after midnight should be discounted altogether.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“And then there's this whole section of people who fall somewhere in the middle. People who you don't even notice until they say something unexpected and then you realise they are smart and funny, or people who look bad in a school uniform but then you see them in a coat and scarf and everything changes.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I'm currently alone in the downstairs bedroom that's closest to the front door, and I'm scared. Why didn't I think of the risks of bed-swapping? I'll be the first person murdered because of Zach and Lucy's horniness.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“But when people say you've got to love yourself first, they never explain how, exactly, you get past people screaming 'gross bitch', how you get past feeling like your best days are your only best days because you're managing to hide the bad bits, how you feel desirable if no one has ever desired you.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I am an adult now (sort of, kind of, not really).”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I always had this vision of myself doing something important during my teen years. I didn't think I would be a child prodigy, but I thought I would be something very close to it, and now I'm almost out of time. Before I know it, I'll be twenty-one and no one will be impressed by anything I do.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“They want to be something. They'll have real jobs. And money. I don't know what I want to be. I mostly trained myself to do well at school as an antidote to all the dark thoughts, the ones that said 'no one likes you very much' and 'you have nothing to show for your life except schoolwork'.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn
from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I will do arts, then maybe honours and a PhD (I am the kind of person who will just keep automatically doing the next study option until there are none left).”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I do like to be out doing things and talking to people.'
'I like to be home, not doing things, talking to no one.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“Maybe I've never smiled or laughed at an appropriate time in my entire life and I just didn't realise until this moment.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“We were once a friendship group of three individuals – three equals, three devoted but platonic points of a triangle – and now we're a breathlessly in love couple (them) and a person who spends her Saturday night taking photos of the back of her head in a mirror so she can understand what it's like to see herself from behind (me).”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“Okay, tell me your top five tips,' I say, suddenly realizing Alex is going to be here any minute.
'I'm not a BuzzFeed article.'
'Quick, just tell me the most important things.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I feel very reassured. In fact, it feels like we're in separate rooms. Separate houses even.' I say. 'That's the power of a good pillow barrier,' he says, and his voice has a smile in it.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“Normally I'm good with silence, but this feels like very pointed 'we are two people with nothing to say to each other' silence, which is the most stressful silence after 'I am mad at you' silence.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“Turning eighteen and knowing I had never been liked romantically, by anyone, at all, ever, in my entire life”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“I was ashamed of how unhappy I felt”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“Adult approval has long been my drug of choice”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“the beginning of a whole new life is waiting for me.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head