“I might not have a boyfriend, but I have cupcakes, an those tasty bastards haven't let me down yet.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“It feels like nobody in the history of the world has loved another person as much as I love you. I love you so much it hurts. You make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me burn.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“I want to ruin you Freda, in the best way possible.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“We all paint on a face to show the world," Nicholas replies philosophically. "For some of us, that's quite literal.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Every memory makes me who I am right now, in this moment. Good or bad, all experiences shape you.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“You've got a wonderful way with words, disgusting but wonderful.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“I belong to you. I've belonged to you since the beginning, since before I even knew that I did," he rambles. "I'll never hurt you again. I'd rather die than to hurt you”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“You'll always be my friend, won't you Fred? Don't let me fuck this up. I need you in my life now. I need the golden eyed girl who can make me smile.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“I care about you more than I care about myself, Fred.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“I like the him that's underneath the clothes and the painted face.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“No need to worry. The closest I've ever come to an STD was a kidney infection. I always put a raincoat on the little fella before heading into a storm.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“It's sad to think how humanity has been reduced to being more comfortable communing through the medium of a keyboard, rather than having a real life conversation.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“I love him because he makes me laugh when I don't feel like laughing. I love him because he challenges my view of what a man is. I love him because I know I shouldn't love him and that he'll break my heart. I love him because he's a complete and total anomaly. I love him because I want to kill the sadness inside him more than I want anything else in the world.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“You have sex on the brain twenty-four seven Viv. I think you might need therapy."
"Perhaps I do. Don't get me wrong I'm no Russell Brand, but I do have quite an avid interest in shagging.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Sometimes we're cruellest to the ones we care about the most.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Bullies didn't care about the truth, they just wanted an easy target.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“The female need for true love is a fickle bitch. It forces itself into your life and shapes your actions, always driving you to find that one guy who'll love you unconditionally.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Nicholas is gay, isn't he," she says, her voice dripping with dejection.
I shrug, again remembering his proposition from last night. "Not necessarily. The jury's still out. There's hope for a Christmas wedding yet," I tell her.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“In the world that exists inside my own head I am the perfect woman.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“You're a bit of an odd duck aren't you Freda,' she says, her glasses hanging too low on her nose. 'Quack,' I reply.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Okay, this is messed up. I’m getting all hot and bothered over a man who’s more comfortable in make-up and a pair of heels that I am.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Well, how do I look?” he asks, turning his made up face from side to side. He looks like a really hot woman. It’s unsettling, but also titillating.
“If I was into girls, I’d do you,” I tell him honestly.
He leans forward conspiratorially. “Psst, I’ll let you in on a secret Fred,” he glances sheepishly from side to side. “I actually have a cock. Don’t tell anyone, it would ruin my reputation. But feel free to do me any time you want.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“You saw me, changed my life, made it better, and I’m completely fucking in love with you.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“This is astounding, amazing, so incredibly thrilling. Only today a world travelling cabaret performing drag queen took me out for lunch and named me as his new best friend. The idea plunges my black and white world into a vibrant techni-colour rainbow.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“Who would have thought that a drag queen could be my ultimate male fantasy?”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“If I had to pick two words to describe Edinburgh, I would tell you that it's majestic and beautiful. Really, really old, but somehow more alive than any other place I've ever been.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“She doesn't understand why I'd want to go by the name of some middle aged van driver when I could go by a pretty name like Freda. I told her I like to be economical with syllables.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“If Edward Cullen had of been ugly I'm sure Bella Swan wouldn't have been quite so smitten with him coming into her bedroom to watch her sleep at night. We females can be strange, shallow creatures when the mood takes us.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“I'm thinking he might be a sex pest.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
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“I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..."
I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Withering Tights
“insanlarla en içten biçimde arkadaş oluyor ve bunun gerçekten ömür boyu süreceğine inanıyor ve günün birinde bu her şeyden çok taktir ettiğimiz, hayranlık duyduğumuz, hatta sevdiğimiz insanlar tarafından hayal kırıklığına uğratılıyor ve onlardan tiksiniyoruz ve onlardan nefret ediyoruz ve onlarla hiçbir ilişkimiz kalsın istemiyoruz, diye düşündüm berjer koltukta, tıpkı eskiden duyduğumuz eğilim ve sevgi gibi, nefretimizle de onları ömür boyu istemediğimiz için onları tamamen kafamızdan siliyoruz.”
― Thomas Bernhard, quote from Woodcutters
“MAYBE IT WOULD be a good idea to rearrange the flat a bit,’ said Mum. ‘I’ve been thinking. You and Kendall might like your own den, more of a play space. So how about us turning the bedroom into your room. It’s purple too, your favourite colour.’ ‘Lilac isn’t purple.’ ‘It’s light purple, Miss Picky. Anyway, I was thinking of getting a little portable telly for you two. You’d like that, wouldn’t you? Then the living room could be more – well, my room.’ ‘And you want to put a socking great bed in it for you and Jake,’ I said coldly. ‘No I don’t! Well. I was thinking about one of them sofa beds. Then if Jake should want to stay over . . .’ ‘Why can’t he stay in his own place?’ ‘He hasn’t exactly got his own place,’ said Mum. ‘He’s staying with a friend at the moment.’ ‘Why can’t he get his own place, then?’ I said. ‘Because he hasn’t got any money. He’s a student.’ ‘They give them rooms in the university, don’t they?’ ‘Only the first year. For God’s sake, Lola Rose, give it a rest. He’s coming to live with us and that’s that. I don’t see why you’ve got such a problem with it. We’re in love, can’t you see?’ ‘He doesn’t love you. He’s just shacking up with us because he hasn’t got anywhere else. And you spend a fortune on him. Our fortune.’ Mum slapped me straight across the face. Kendall was watching. He cried. I didn’t cry. I stared Mum out. ‘You only slapped me because you know it’s true.’ ‘I slapped you because you’re a spoilt little cow,’ Mum snapped. ‘What’s the matter with you, Lola Rose? You can’t be jealous, can you?”
― Jacqueline Wilson, quote from Lola Rose
“Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again.
I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.”
― Mark Peter Hughes, quote from Lemonade Mouth
“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, only moral and which relegates art, every art, to the realm of lies; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from The Birth of Tragedy
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