One of the Girls Quotes

“Life was fragile and fleeting and mostly out of your control, and all you could do was surround yourself with good people, do your best.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“The whole world fizzed. Kissing Fen was like sinking beneath the surface of the sea, but instead of it being airless and dark, it was lit with phosphorescence so luminous that she knew she’d never see the world the same way again.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Who I was in my twenties isn’t who I am right now. And who I am right now probably isn’t going to be who I am next year, or even next month. I don’t have to be one thing the whole time.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“The problem with night was that all the things you avoided thinking about during the day gave you a knowing wink – See you tonight, then! – and there they were, as soon as you closed your eyes. Except at night it was even worse, because by then you were too tired to think rationally and everything became magnified, distorted.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“After six months of writing to one another, they met.
It was like nothing she’d ever experienced. Like magnets finding their opposing force. It was love in all the ways she had never known.
There was everything to learn about each other.
Everything to unlearn about herself.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“She lifted the bottle of vodka to her lips and took a heavy gulp, the alcohol burning her throat. Then she laid the blanket across the foot of the boat and arranged herself on top, making a pillow of her arms.
The stars. All the stars.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Bella’s lips were exquisitely soft and full. Robyn had kissed lots of boys. That was not what kisses were supposed to be like. They were harder, urgent. Bella’s mouth was cushiony and sweet; she wanted to sink into it.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“We pictured ourselves partying at the hem of the ocean beneath a blanket of stars, wood smoke in our hair and alcohol warm in our throats. Looking back – even knowing what happened – there were some beautiful moments that evening, happy ones, the six of us, together.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Robyn felt warmth bloom in her cheeks, heat rising from the very centre of her. Fen’s gaze skirted across her face, as if reading something in her expression. Robyn could feel the sun hot against her scalp, hear the gentle lap of the sea at the foot of the cliffs.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Good swim?’ Robyn asked as Fen approached, her skin wet and glistening.
‘Glorious.’ She pulled on her top, not bothering with a bra. ‘Worth the scramble down, right?’
Water droplets were caught in the ends of Fen’s lashes, sunlight glinting off the perfect clear beads, making her green eyes look like they were sparkling. Robyn felt a fresh charge of energy in her chest. ‘Absolutely.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Maybe we all need to stop trying to meet everyone else’s expectations – and just meet our own.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“she”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“We journeyed from different corners of the country to be there. We came together for her. Because we loved her. In a hundred different ways we adored her. We wanted her light to shine on us. We wanted to make it special for her, so she’d see how much we loved her. At a hen party, the bride-to-be takes on an almost celestial, golden status. That weekend, she was the celebrity, and we were her fans and paparazzi.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“beautiful cocktail of our happy hormones – oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin – elevates our mood. Studies”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“If the others wanted to sip one glass of wine and call it a night by ten o’clock, then they should go join a book club.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“O brilhante beijo azul do mar.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Livros, para mim, não são artigos científicos estendidos, mas experiências de leitura; e os acadêmicos, que tendem a ler apenas para citar trechos em seus próprios textos — em vez de ler por prazer, curiosidade ou simplesmente porque gostam de ler -, costumam ficar frustrados quando não conseguem dar uma olhada superficial em um texto e resumi-lo em uma única frase que o conecte a algum discurso existente no qual estiveram envolvidos.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“O mar... em um momento, tão fascinante em sua glória reluzente, e no seguinte, sombrio, sem fundo e mortal.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“E agora era apenas ela e o mar.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Não é estranho como, às vezes, as piores coisas que acontecem com a gente acabam sendo as melhores?”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Mais além, o mar brilhava, escamas reluzentes oscilando debaixo do céu vasto e limpo.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Encontrar um bom livro para lhe fazer companhia no meio da noite.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Apenas ela. O céu. O mar.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Queria sair do terraço, descer os degraus de pedra até a praia e afundar os pés no mar.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Conseguiu sentir o aroma leve da brisa do mar subindo.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“O mar brilhava, tão perto que a provocava.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“O remédio de uma pessoa pode ser o veneno de outra.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Ela serviu o café, arrastou uma cadeira até a mureta e, então, sentou-se e abriu o livro.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Queríamos o mar, azul e brilhante, com um tapete de cascalhos brancos.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls

“Sentiu o desenrolar lento da cobra em seu interior. Venenosa e mortal.”
― Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls