When someone was gazing into your eyes like that, it was kind of hard to look away.
Well that’s because I wasn’t always like this.’ Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. ‘I built a wall around myself.
The strain of pretending everything was normal had been agonizing. How was she going to keep this up for the next week… month… year?
Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else...
She’d got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excus...
She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.
On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea
If it was sympathy she was after, Ginny Holland might have known she’d come to the wrong place. Then again, it was early on a bright but blustery Saturday morning in October and her options were limit...
And just because she was crossing her fingers didn’t mean her wish would come true.
All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life.
Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it...
Curtain yelled, ‘I hate you, I hate you so much, just GET OUT OF MY LIFE!
Why would you want to leave?’ ‘I’ve just made up my mind. It’s the best thing to do. Lots of people move to London.’ ‘Lots of people living in London wish they could move to Cornwall.’ Tears were now...
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...
Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn’t summon up the energy to make them.
Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic
She was determined to make amends. Her old life was behind her and the new one had begun.
Maybe he should kill himself and put them all out of their misery.
But you were the one who came to see it! You said it was just what you were looking for! Her voice rising—and not in an I-fancy-you way—Ginny said, You said it was perfect! He blinked, nonplussed. 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...