The Guest List Quotes

“In my experience, those who have the greatest respect for the rules also take the most enjoyment in breaking them.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“And I'm not worried about it being haunted. I have my own ghosts. I carry them with me wherever I go.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Just because the rest of us don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves, just because we have found a way of managing our feelings – it doesn’t mean they’re not there.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Marriage is about finding that person you know best in the world. Not how they take their coffee or what their favourite film is or the name of their first cat. It's knowing on a deeper level. It's knowing their soul.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“The rage is growing inside me, overtaking the shock and grief. I can feel it blossoming up behind my ribs. It’s almost a relief, how it obliterates every other feeling in its path.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“It's always better to get it out in the open - even if it seems shameful, even if you feel like people won't understand.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“If I could cry it might all be better, but I can’t. It’s like an ability I’ve lost, like a language I’ve forgotten.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“When he broke up with me, he told me that he would love me forever. But that’s total crap. If you love someone, really, you don’t do anything to hurt them.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Sometimes,’ I say, ‘I think it’s too difficult to tell the people closest to you. The ones you love.”
― Lucy Foley , The Guest List

“If I didn't pay attention, one of those currents could grow into a huge riptide, destroying all my careful planning. And here's another thing I've learned - sometimes the smallest currents are the strongest.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“You don't get this. This isn't your moment. You didn't create it. I created it in spite of you.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“Nowhere on earth could possibly live up to those halcyon days. But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But it’s possible to hate your body when you’re thin, too. To feel like it’s kept secrets from you. To feel like it’s let you down.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“None of us had realized quite how fragile Alice was. She had always seemed so capable, so in control: getting all those amazing grades, playing on the sports teams, getting her place at university, never missing a trick. But underneath that, fuelling all this success, was a tangled mass of anxiety that none of us saw until it was too late.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“It’s always better to get it out in the open - even if it feels shameful, even if you feel like people will judge you for it.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“When you've got your heart set on someone Brad Pitt could walk in and he wouldn't be enough--"
"Brad Pitt is really fucking old," I say.
"Um--Harry Styles?"
That almost makes me smile. "Yeah. Maybe. or Timothee Chalamet.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“There's another self that I sometimes feel I lost along the way. The girl who always stayed for one more drink, who loved a dance. I miss her, sometimes.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“See, mine is a profession in which you orchestrate happiness....You can't control more than a single day. But you can control one of them. Twenty four hours can be curated. A wedding day is a neat little parcel of time in which I can create something whole and perfect to be cherished for a lifetime, a pearl from a broken necklace.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But it’s all about the moment, a wedding. All about the day. It’s not really about the marriage at all, in spite of what everyone says.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“There's nothing less sexy than a lack of ambition, is there?”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“I want to tell her to wipe off the lipstick and eyeliner, to stay in that safe childhood space for a while longer.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“When I step outside the sun is just beginning to go down, spilling fire upon water. It tinges pink the mist that has begun to gather over the bog, that shields its secrets. This is my favourite hour.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“the worst thing I could imagine was her being taken from me.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“If doing your own make-up is good enough for Kate Middleton, it’s good enough for me.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“something dark and cruel hiding behind the public schoolboy manners.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“It's always like the first time with him - that haste, only better, now we know exactly what the other wants.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“a storm is raging. It shrieks around them, it batters the marquee.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List