Adults Quotes

“Sometimes I think about how many therapists in the world know about me and I feel sick with fame.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Some fresh air, some perspective. You wonder why you’re anxious when you constantly stare at a device that beams nightmares into your eyes.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“So let me get this straight,” she says, “You’re upset because someone you don’t know might not like a version of you that doesn’t really exist.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“I’m anxious to please her because I’m an approval junkie and have a teacher–pupil dynamic with people in positions of authority.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“That’s what the mid-thirties should be about, after all: constant self-interrogation. Acquiring the courage to change what you can, and the therapist to accept what you can’t. What”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Full stop or no full stop? A full stop always looks decisive and commanding, but it can also look more cool and casual if you just leave the sentence hanging there, like, Oh I'm so busy in my dazzling life I don't even have time to punctuate. The squalid truth is I over-punctuate when I'm stressed/excited.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“All those exhibitions I smiled through. All those parties I hosted. All those dinners I presented. All that I was, I was not. I was a lie. The antisocial party girl.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Maybe that’s why I don’t feel like a kid,” Sony replies. “Because the planet is dying and someone needs to take responsibility.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“We’re comforting ourselves, aren’t we, you and I? We’re living in repeats and circles because they’re reassuring that there’ll be no surprises. No more hurt.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“You’re wasting time caring about all this superficial shit while the world goes to hell in a handcart. Babies are in cages on the Mexican boarder, someone I went to school with just set up a food bank in my hometown.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Your imagination is filling in the gaps and joining up dots to create the wrong picture. You were always too good at that.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Mostly though, I just want to not care what every single person thinks of me all the time. And I want to not have so many people’s opinions whirring around my brain and I want to share my life with someone and not get bored. And I’m so scared that isn’t possible because that is a lot of boxes to empty and sort. And sometimes I just want to have a shower and put on a clean pair of jeans and eat a sandwich in a cafe and feel like a normal fucking person.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Oh, my darling," she says, into my hair. "At least I only had to try to look like Twiggy. You've got to sing and dance and fuck and work and mother and sparkle and equalize and not complain and be beautiful and love your imperfections and stay strong and show your vulnerability and bake and box and pull fucking port. It's much too much.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Para começar, ter filhos é o maior dos projetos de vaidade. - Kelly”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Quando você está em um relacionamento com um homem branco, basicamente administra um reformatório todo santo dia, companheira. - Kelly”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“É o mínimo que posso fazer, interrogar a mim mesma. mesma. afinal, esse deveria ser o objetivo quando já chegamos à metade da casa dos trinta. - jehnny”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults

“Facebook,” he says. “Now and then. For arrangements.” “Well, then you’ll understand. Although I have to say I find Facebook quite suspicious.” “Suspicious how?” “It listens. It’s listening to us right now, on your phone. If I say ‘panini maker,’ you’re going to get loads of ads for panini makers next time you log on.” “Don’t say it, then.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Grown Ups

“Maybe therapy isn’t just a bad one-woman fringe show you don’t have the balls to take on the road.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Grown Ups