I realized what I felt . . . happy. It was such a strange, unusual feeling—light, calm, as though I’d swallowed sunshine.
Three words, Ignis aurum probat. Fire tests gold. The rest of the phrase: . . . and adversity tests the brave.
I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.
What, after all, is the point of eating out if you have to clear up yourself? You might as well have stayed at home.
It is incomprehensible to me now that I could ever have thought that anyone would love this ambulant bag of blood and bones.
Eyelids are really just flesh curtains.
All of the people in the room seemed to take so much for granted: that they would be invited to social events, that they would have friends and family to talk to, that they would fall in love, be love...
Was this how it worked, then, successful social integration? Was it really that simple? Wear some lipstick, go to the hairdressers and alternate the clothes you wear? Someone ought to write a book, or...
Mummy told me, years ago, that men go absolutely crazy for sausage rolls. The way to a man’s heart, she said, is a homemade sausage roll,
I understood that assisted conception was the antithesis of careless, spontaneous or unplanned parenthood, that it was the most deliberate of decisions, undertaken only by women who were serious and d...
I had to google mofo and must confess to being slightly alarmed by the result.
I felt like a newly laid egg, all swishy and gloopy inside, and so fragile that the slightest pressure could break me.
Your voice changes when you’re smiling, it alters the sound somehow.
Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn't erase it.
The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.
She had tried to steer me towards vertiginous heels again - why are these people so incredibly keen on crippling their female customers? I began to wonder if cobblers and chiropractors had established...
Life should be about trying new things ,exploring boundaries, I reminded myself.
It fell open at a pivotal scene, the one where Jane meets Mr. Rochester for the first time, startling his horse in the woods and causing him to fall. Pilot is there too, the handsome, soulful-eyed hou...
If I’m ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I’ll think, What would a ferret do?
I'd tried to cope alone for far too long, and it hadn't done me any good at all. Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.