The Cement Garden is the first novel by Ian McEwan, written in 1978. In the Slovenia was first published this year. In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family.
“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”
Does this quote feel familiar to you? That's because you can hear it at the beginning of the Madonna's song, What It Feels Like For A Girl. Of course, the quote in the music video is taken from the film The Cement Garden, where the oldest child is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg.
“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.”
The nail polish is from Essence, of course discontinued one and it's grey. in the bottle it looks like dark grey, but on my nails, it looks like there is also a hint of blue.
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