"Vile Bodies" Quotes

I don't know how to thank you. I feel so cheap and common. It's the first time I've ever been in love and I won't be able to sleep or eat or work or do anything. I've just been sitting here, feeling like a stuffed owl.

She was a girl of refreshing candour, not afraid to speak the truth.

Would you like me to be a lady or an artist? I can be either. I am both.

Oh, Adam, I wish you wouldn't be so serious. It's so boring, darling, to be serious.

I can't bear it when they're so vague and amateurish and do everything by accident. I like things to be done properly.

I have a wonderful idea. I shall go to bed and sleep for two days. That will make me forget all my troubles.

I don't want to be a failure. I'm so tired of all the people I know being failures. I want to be a success. It's not my fault I was born in the wrong class.

All this modern stuff is so horribly sordid and foul. It's what I've always hated. It's so shoddy.

I can't stand all this excitement and shouting and running up and down. It's utter madness.

I've always pretended that I was a man of the world. I've never felt like one. I've always felt quite ridiculous.