Words matter. These are the best Caroline Calloway Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am more respectful of the parasocial relationship of myself and my fans than anything Damien Hirst does between himself and his collectors.
I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction – both my own and the pain I caused other people.
I feel like the more serious a life event is that you share on social media, the more ridiculous it sort of becomes, the more you sort of self-trivialize.
I’m always grateful when people share stuff on social media that I’ve never seen before, because it gives me a bit more strength to hold more space for the unsavory parts of my life that cause me shame.
The articles about my workshops are dripping in derision but if you speak to the people who attended the events, people loved it and thought they got their money’s worth.
I wanted to create art that fit the Pinterest interior aesthetic, because that is so of the internet age and my platform, my celebrity.
The idea that my life would be something I shared with the public wasn’t just something that I assumed – it was something that I actively wanted. I still want it.
If you build a life around an identity that springs from your own imagination, is it ever inauthentic?
It’s not that I don’t experience absolute sadness, which is very unentertaining, but I think – when I’m being really honest about myself – I think there’s, like, a really performative streak in my personality.
In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.
People care about such bizarre and specific things about me.
How do you hold on to the idea that you are good and kind and deserving of love when the whole world thinks you’re evil? It’s really disorienting to see this character with your face and your name and your details catch internet wildfire. It really bothered me.
My life isn’t going to stop because my father’s dead and my trolls won’t stop and people won’t stop writing about me.
Even at my most depressed and low-functioning, as soon as you put another person in the room with me, I would perk up and be happy to see them.
A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.
What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.
I wrote the captions that built my brand.
I don’t dispute the fact that I ordered too many mason jars. 1,200 Mason jars in a studio apartment is not the hill that I will die on.
I know people think that having a regular publisher is more prestigious, there is even this idea that self-publishing is a result of being snubbed. But self-publishing really appeals to me.
If I’m not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don’t write about it.
