Cocos Quotes

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

I wore your promise on my finger for one year I'll wear your name on my heart til I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

Elegance is refusal.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

In my story you're the villain. But in my heart, you're still the reigning King.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.

Some girls need men to take them places. Others just click their heels, spread their own wings, and fly.

I'm so lonely I could make a map of my loneliness....Sometimes I'm so lonely I'm not even on that map.

Fondness was the best word she could think of to describe what they felt for each other. Fondness was warm but not tepid, the color of amber, more affectionate than friendship but less complicated than love.

....finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed along when something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game...

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

When it’s just you, just me, no one around to tell us how we should be—I know we could have made it. I know we could have fought it. I know we could have conquered.

There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.

I’ll dream up a world where you never existed. A world you could never live in. I’ll live there without you.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.

If I wasn't so phenomenal. I would go back to you.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I HOLD If I could have had him, I could have let him go. But without the having there was nothing— so to the nothing I hold.

This book is dedicated to my children, Pi, Coco, and Jay. When your grandkids are old enough to read this book, tell them how much I loved you.

Your psychotic behavior and constant temper tantrums intrigue me.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.

If you were green tea, I’d be your tea cup. If you were dark chocolate, I’d be the paper that wraps you up. If you were a train, I’d be your tracks If you were a brain, I’d be the heart attached.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

She stopped caring... and started laughing.

I hate you. I hate you like the girl who hates cake because it makes her fat and she can’t stop eating it.

Fuck you perfectionism. Without you, I am brilliant.

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again...but he will always leave her empty

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

....hurts not just the heart, but every part.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Stop pretending. You wanted to be real right? This hurts, this is what it feels like, this is the growing up, the stoping pretending, the false past tap-dancing. This is the owning. This is the no-i-won’t-be-performing, this is growing out of the glamour and back into the tattered shabby mis-constructed hearts shadow. This is me owning. This is me admitting. This is me realing-up, maning-up. growing up, wanting up.

Did my courage make you crazy? Cripple you with the unknown? Did my silence create desire—make you feel things you could not discern? Is my shinning light exploding? Can your eyes not yet adjust? Is my forgiveness running through you? Knowing your pain I will not digest? Is my confidence disrupting the girl you LOVE to HATE the most?

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

...you’re in my blood spreading through my heart— pumping me numb.

Dear Heart, please go away.

Make your choice and make it quick, either build a real heart, or get out of my way QUICK.

Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.

I pull away, you pull me back, you grab my hand and wrap me around. What you did not know is—– my heart is my hand.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

….watch me rise like smoke from fire. Watch me fly above your hate. Watch me dance upon your meanness like a ballerina with posture; grace. Watch me laugh over your hatred; watch me soar above your sea of grief. And know that I am out there somewhere… C R U S H I N G.

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it’s like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don’t want to.

Smile. Your eyes sparkle when you do.

You'll never like me, but you'll always love me.

I’m too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming.

But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they’re not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it’s not because they’re not interesting. They just don’t feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don’t have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.

A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.

A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a particular time and a particular place. And there are an infinite number of things which didn't happen at that time and that place. And if I think about something which didn't happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn't happen. For example, this morning for breakfast I had Ready Brek and some hot raspberry milkshake. But if I say that I actually had Shreddies and a mug of tea I start thinking about Coco-Pops and lemonade and Porridge and Dr Pepper and how I wasn't eating my breakfast in Egypt and there wasn't a rhinoceros in the room and Father wasn't wearing a diving suit and so on and even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang onto the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed. This is another reason why I don't like proper novels, because they are lies about things which didn't happen and they make me feel shaky and scared. And this is why everything I have written here is true.