“We all have versions of ourselves we can bear to look at, versions we prepare for the world’s consumption, that we hope will make ourselves loved, allow us to be forgiven. Versions of our real selves that allow us to live with the things we have done.”
―
Ellery Lloyd,
The Club
“That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the consequences of their actions.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It can really rob you of your faith in the human spirit, sometimes, the internet.” ― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her
“Maybe that was the point: that at a certain level, certainly as a man, it became a literal expression of your power, that you could wander around looking like that and people would still hang on your every word.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“an open-plan multilayered interior like something M. C. Escher might have come up with after bingeing on too many copies of Architectural Digest,” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“In some respects it was a mistake, as a woman especially, to be really efficient over a long period of time. Because if you made things seem easy, and people had no experience of things not running smoothly, it came to seem that anybody could do it.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“Because really, isn’t that what power is? A middle-aged Rumpelstiltskin, jumping up and down, visibly out of breath, swinging on a chandelier, and no one daring to laugh. A grown man so cross with an oil painting of an old lady he looks as if he is about to burst the buttons off his shirt, and nobody daring to suggest he might be overreacting just a little.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“... when you give people a mask, that’s when they show you what they really are.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“Suddenly everyone on Twitter was well versed on the safety features of the Defender 2020 Electric Land Rover, everyone on Facebook was an expert on the Blackwater Estuary’s currents and tides.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It was one of those afternoons when time seems not just to be moving quicker than usual, but vanishing in great unexplained leaps and jumps.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“The classic murder mystery ends with a neat set of motives, a culprit, and a comeuppance. Perhaps that is why we read them. Perhaps that is why we love them. Because real life offers us so few of these consolations, so few of these satisfactions.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“News is what someone, somewhere, wants suppressed—isn’t that what they said? Everything else is just PR.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It’s not every day that you discover your whole adult life has been built around an elaborate practical joke.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It means worrying. It means caring. It means constantly walking a fine line between joy and terror. It means constantly asking yourself whether you are making the right decisions, and for whose benefit you are really making them. It means being a parent all day every day and all night too, no matter where you are or what else you have going on.” ― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her
“... perhaps any tragedy seems to acquire a sense of inevitability.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“What a revelation, what a relief it had been to realize, at the age of about twelve perhaps, that her mother’s tempers were not actually something you could prevent. That no matter how quietly you walked or how carefully you cleaned up after yourself, or how studiously you tried to avoid attracting her attention, she would always be able to find something to lose her rag about. That did not make it any more pleasant to be in the eye of the storm of course, but what it did mean was that you stopped internalizing any of it.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“The classic murder mystery ends with a neat set of motives, a culprit and a comeuppance. Perhaps that is why we read them. Perhaps that is why we love them. Because real life offers us so few of these consolations, so few of these satisfactions. Maybe one day a clue will be uncovered or a confession will come to light to offer us the sense of closure the books and the movies have taught us to expect, and to believe we deserve.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It had shocked her how dull they were too – that people with such astonishing lives were so crushingly bland, had so little to say, so few opinions and anecdotes and interesting quirks” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“when it comes to online life, women just don’t respond well to other women’s success—if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.” ― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her
“That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the consequences of their actions.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It can really rob you of your faith in the human spirit, sometimes, the internet.” ― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her
“Maybe that was the point: that at a certain level, certainly as a man, it became a literal expression of your power, that you could wander around looking like that and people would still hang on your every word.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“an open-plan multilayered interior like something M. C. Escher might have come up with after bingeing on too many copies of Architectural Digest,” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“In some respects it was a mistake, as a woman especially, to be really efficient over a long period of time. Because if you made things seem easy, and people had no experience of things not running smoothly, it came to seem that anybody could do it.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“Because really, isn’t that what power is? A middle-aged Rumpelstiltskin, jumping up and down, visibly out of breath, swinging on a chandelier, and no one daring to laugh. A grown man so cross with an oil painting of an old lady he looks as if he is about to burst the buttons off his shirt, and nobody daring to suggest he might be overreacting just a little.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“... when you give people a mask, that’s when they show you what they really are.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“Suddenly everyone on Twitter was well versed on the safety features of the Defender 2020 Electric Land Rover, everyone on Facebook was an expert on the Blackwater Estuary’s currents and tides.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It was one of those afternoons when time seems not just to be moving quicker than usual, but vanishing in great unexplained leaps and jumps.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“The classic murder mystery ends with a neat set of motives, a culprit, and a comeuppance. Perhaps that is why we read them. Perhaps that is why we love them. Because real life offers us so few of these consolations, so few of these satisfactions.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“News is what someone, somewhere, wants suppressed—isn’t that what they said? Everything else is just PR.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It’s not every day that you discover your whole adult life has been built around an elaborate practical joke.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It means worrying. It means caring. It means constantly walking a fine line between joy and terror. It means constantly asking yourself whether you are making the right decisions, and for whose benefit you are really making them. It means being a parent all day every day and all night too, no matter where you are or what else you have going on.” ― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her
“... perhaps any tragedy seems to acquire a sense of inevitability.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“What a revelation, what a relief it had been to realize, at the age of about twelve perhaps, that her mother’s tempers were not actually something you could prevent. That no matter how quietly you walked or how carefully you cleaned up after yourself, or how studiously you tried to avoid attracting her attention, she would always be able to find something to lose her rag about. That did not make it any more pleasant to be in the eye of the storm of course, but what it did mean was that you stopped internalizing any of it.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“The classic murder mystery ends with a neat set of motives, a culprit and a comeuppance. Perhaps that is why we read them. Perhaps that is why we love them. Because real life offers us so few of these consolations, so few of these satisfactions. Maybe one day a clue will be uncovered or a confession will come to light to offer us the sense of closure the books and the movies have taught us to expect, and to believe we deserve.” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“It had shocked her how dull they were too – that people with such astonishing lives were so crushingly bland, had so little to say, so few opinions and anecdotes and interesting quirks” ― Ellery Lloyd, The Club
“when it comes to online life, women just don’t respond well to other women’s success—if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.” ― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her
