“ It’s strange, because you can put up with all manner of nonsense in your life, all sorts of sadness, and you manage to keep everything on board and march through it, then someone is kind to you and it… Joanna Cannon
“ I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine. Joanna Cannon
“ The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life. Joanna Cannon
“ Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distracted… Joanna Cannon
“ And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong. Joanna Cannon
