Rae Earl Quotes:

Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.

Topics: Thinking, People, Save Yourself

There are times when I can't stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that mean nothing… but when I want to find some words that mean everything, I just can't speak. Like: I miss you. Like: I love you. Like: My world is falling apart and I need you by my side.

Topics: Fall, Love You, Mean, I Love You Like, Love You Like

Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.

source: - Rae Earl (2016). “My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir”, p.89, St. Martin's Griffin

Topics: Sometimes, Feels

There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the furniture shop. For the record, I'm certainly DFS. In fact I am permanently shopping in DFS with no hope of getting out of the store.

Topics: Sex, School, Mean

I need to do SOMETHING to make ME feel better about ME.

Topics: Feel Better, Needs, Feels, Make Me Feel Better

I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.

source: - Rae Earl (2016). “My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Griffin

Topics: Feelings, Special, Want, Special You, Blokes

I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.

source: - Rae Earl (2016). “My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir”, p.53, St. Martin's Griffin

Topics: Men, Mind

And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.

Topics: Wall, Thinking, Years

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

Topics: People, Rest Of Your Life, Being Afraid, Rejecting

There was this one model in French Elle. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette with big lips and was wearing this tight navy dress by Azzedine someone. She was so beautiful; and the choices she must have. and…Oh, I would give it all up just to have been born that way because her life will be so easy. She won’t have to think, and men will fall into her lap and…It’s all unfair and I don’t want to even write it. It will never change, and no one wants to admit it but being thin and pretty is the best thing a woman can be.

Topics: Beautiful, Fall, Writing, Brunette