Life might not work out as you'd want it to, but you just got on with it anyway.
But this was just making her feel claustrophobic. They couldn’t carry on like this; she was going to have to do something about it.
Abbie wondered why she was even bothering to stay alive, when she was evidently so gullible and pathetic and pointless. The only thing that stopped her taking an overdose was, she couldn't be bothered...
None of us knows how long any one of us has left. It could be fifty hours, could be fifty years. We’re just glad we’re here today. And we won’t forget those who aren’t.
Why do men think they can get away with it? Because they’re men.
When someone was gazing into your eyes like that, it was kind of hard to look away.
Day when we were young and lovely.
The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over t...
Being scared wasn’t an emotion Zack was familiar with, but it had him in its grip now.
Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger.
Lucas, I wouldn’t drive five
Even a little bit? No. She
Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.
She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent.
She was tired, her back was aching, and her life was.
Don't be a whiner, she told herself. Concentrate on the good things in life, even if there don't seem to be too many of them left.
Ellie closed her eyes and felt the aching loneliness well up inside her chest.
Left shoulder and trying to pretend it hardly hurt at all - ow, ouch - she wondered why her life had to so closely resemble Mr Bean’s. What she wouldn’t give to be sleek and chic and in control at all...
Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac.
Every day we do things that are capable of changing everything, and that’s what makes life exciting.
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