Everything You Ever Wanted Quotes

“I came here because I wanted to be reborn, but I just carried on living.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“How do they do it? thought Iris. How did they get so good at performing their lives? She didn’t feel human, or like a gorilla. She felt like a mad, stupid monkey wearing human skin, barely passing.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“On another planet, in another universe, we’re still kids and it’s summer, and it always will be. That was the planet she wanted to go to.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“She didn’t see things, she didn’t hear things, she had a job. She seemed like a normal person. All this pretending, performing, it was her life’s work”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“To be so lucky and so miserable, it was insufferable. I should be put down like a dog, she thought. I need to leave London. I need to leave the country, the planet, the solar system.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“Elias’s body, emptied of his soul, now seems both precious and cursed.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“They were just passing the time, playing their roles, like bad actors saying their lines too quickly, without conviction, because they wanted to walk off stage and go home. It didn’t matter how she performed. It didn’t matter if she didn’t change. All that mattered was staying in character and knowing your place. Nod, smile, promise to try harder, be grateful for the opportunity – always grateful.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“hey were just passing the time, playing their roles, like bad actors saying their lines too quickly, without conviction, because they wanted to walk off stage and go home. It didn’t matter how she performed. It didn’t matter if she didn’t change. All that mattered was staying in character and knowing your place. Nod, smile, promise to try harder, be grateful for the opportunity – always grateful.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“Even she didn’t know who she really was: the fun, capable colleague, or the revolting madwoman lurking under the surface. There was no singularity, no undeniable truth, no middle ground. She felt both sane and deranged, joyful and miserable, competent and crippled.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“You're a real arsehole, you know that?'
Norman points a finger at her and says, 'You don't get where I am without -'
'Without being an arsehole? You're just a man in a room.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“Did banknotes smell of cocaine, or did cocaine smell of banknotes?”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“Iris didn’t want to make pastries or teach yoga; she didn’t know what she wanted. She often thought: What happens to people like me, when they’re not young any more? The useless ones – where do they go?”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“I should be busy, I should be moving forward, I should be working on my leadership skills, making plans to take over the world. But what she really wanted to do was to stand up and scream, ‘I don’t give a fuck!”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

“She didn’t see things, she didn’t hear things, she had a job. She seemed like a normal person. All this pretending, performing, it was her life’s work – so much harder than anything she did at Freedom & Co.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted