“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.”
“It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.”
“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”
“Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.”
“It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?”
“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts to die.”