Quotes from Emily Perkins

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.

There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give up... Surrender your need for the detail; there is only one way this is going to end.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.