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“And I’m not worried about it being haunted. I have my own ghosts. I carry them with me wherever I go.” (The Guest List Quotes)
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect.”
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Lucy Foley
“I want to cry like a kid as I stumble down to the beach, because it should hurt, my whole body should hurt, but no tears will come – I haven’t been able to make them come for a long time. 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.”
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Lucy Foley
“I’m not interested in fashion for its own sake, but I respect the power of clothes, in creating the right optics.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“I’m not interested in fashion for its own sake, but I respect the power of clothes, in creating the right optics. I knew immediately that this dress was a queenmaker.”
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Lucy Foley
“I’m not necessarily the brightest penny in the till. But I don’t like being treated like a moron, either.”
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Lucy Foley
“I’m so used to giving talks to my employees that I have to work to keep the note of authority out of my voice. I know some women complain about not being able to get people to take them seriously. If anything, I have the opposite problem.”
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Lucy Foley
“In my experience those who have the greatest respect for the rules also take the most enjoyment in breaking them.”
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Lucy Foley
“In the years since I’ve had kids – probably because I’m always with the kids – I’ve apparently become invisible to men. It only dawned on me, when I stopped feeling them on me, that I had taken men’s glances for granted. That I enjoyed them.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“Life is messy. We all know this. Terrible things happen, I learned that while I was still a child. But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day. But you can control one of them. Twenty-four hours can be curated.”
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Lucy Foley
“Love is what teenagers think has happened when actually they’re just stuffed full of hormones.”
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Lucy Foley
“Marriage is about finding that person you know best in the world. Not how they take their coffee or what their favorite film is or the name of their first cat. It’s knowing on a deeper level. It’s knowing their soul.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“See, mine is a profession in which you orchestrate happiness. It is why I became a wedding planner. Life is messy. We all know this. Terrible things happen, I learned that while I was still a child. But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. 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.”
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Lucy Foley
“So much of this whole wedding business, I have realised, is about how things appear. As long as we can make it through with all seeming joyful, jubilant… well, perhaps then we can suppress any darker forces stirring beneath the surface of the day.”
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Lucy Foley
“The cake is quite something to behold. It should be. Tomorrow, of course, it will be destroyed. 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.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“The rituals, the male bonding. When we get together there’s this kind of pack mentality. We get carried away.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“There’s something exotic about being all dressed up with only other adults for company, a plentiful supply of booze, no responsibility.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“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.”
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Lucy Foley
“When was the last time I abandoned myself to some music… when was the last time I had a really good dance? When was the last time I felt this desired, this bloody sexy? It feels like I lost that part of myself somewhere along the way. For these few hours I’m going to enjoy having it back.”
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Lucy Foley
“When you’ve got your heart set on someone Brad Pitt could walk in and he wouldn’t be enough.”
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Lucy Foley
“With every other partner I’ve got bored in a matter of weeks, the sex has rather too quickly become pedestrian, a chore. With Will I feel like I am never quite sated – even when, in the baser sense, I am more sated than I have been with any other lover. It isn’t just about him being so beautiful – which he is, of course, objectively so. This insatiability is far deeper than that. I’m aware of a feeling of wanting to possess him. Of each sexual act being an attempt at a possession that is never quite achieved, some essential part of him always evading my reach, slipping beneath the surface.”
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Lucy Foley
“You don’t get this. This isn’t your moment. You didn’t create it. I created it in spite of you.”
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Lucy Foley
“You learn all the insider secrets, doing this sort of work. You see the things no one else is privileged to see. All the gossip that the guests would kill to have. As a wedding planner you can’t afford to miss anything. You have to be alert to every detail, all the smaller eddies beneath the surface. 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.”
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Lucy Foley
