If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now Quotes

“The Internet has allowed for a kind of closeness without intimacy, a way of claiming a friendship without really knowing much about a person at all. Do you still know someone because you like each other’s posts? It’s the Internet’s magic word: connect. Any social media megalodon cites connection as the single best outcome of the digital age. And yeah, I love that I can talk to anyone at any time. I like that I know where my elementary school best friend is working these days, that I can see what my cousin wore to her junior prom. But social media lets you take for granted the people you see every day. It permits a newfound laziness in friendships. I saw your pic on Instagram, liked it. Task complete.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“I unwrap my straw and fiddle with the wrapper. “The future doesn’t exist,” I say. “There is only today.” “Do you want to be someone’s receptionist? Is that what you want with your life?” He taps on the table like he’s typing at a keyboard. “What time is your appointment, sir?”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“It was rated lemon,” Kelly Parker said. “What’s lemon?” “It means it’s super graphic,” she informed me. “Like with blow jobs and stuff.” “Oh, yeah. Blow jobs,” I said, and nodded, even though I was confused as shit trying to figure out what body part was supposed to get blown on. “Who writes them?” She shrugged. “I dunno. Fans? They’re like, our age, pretty sure.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“Or Anna Todd, whose BDSM fanfiction about a Christian Grey–type Harry Styles landed her a movie deal with Netflix.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“Weed is, like, sacred, in, like, a lot of other countries, did you know that?”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“What can you say to someone who has never known a normal day at school? Who’s never had to accept her own flaws? What can you say to someone who, quite possibly, could be the loneliest girl in the world? Who am I kidding? I know exactly what I’d say. Selfie?”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“I suspect that we will one day see Kylie Jenner’s fall. Not as severe as Marie Antoinette’s, of course, but the public eye does seem to behave in a pattern: First we love them. Then we hate them.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“To stand on Kylie’s front lawn is to tread upon blessed ground.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“You’ve landed in Stepford, or perhaps you’re an accidental cast member on The Truman Show. There’s a feeling of artificiality in the air; the squirrels just might have wind-up keys in their backs.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“One day you’re going to look back and realize you were a dumbass,” my father says. “Give me your phone.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“There is something seriously wrong with the world when a seventeen-year-old girl has to accept that her stolen nudes are just out there.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“almost every girl in the room is wearing the same sunflower print from Brandy Melville.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“Slowly the whole room has their arms raised, all except for Ruby Smith. Her hands stay folded. When the teacher asks, she says she doesn’t feel like making any promises to God. From now on, Ruby is the official whore of the eighth-grade class.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas

“The high school microcosm isn’t as sequestered as you might think. In order to assimilate as soon as possible, you have to morph into an easily digestible category. Because we don’t have enough experience to define our own social groups and expectations, these categories are extracted from what’s presented culturally, in movies and television—products of the adult world.”
― Via Bleidner, If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now: True Stories from Calabasas