It’s a curse being dad’s ‘clever’ child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers – they’re good for you, but you’re not expected to enjoy them.
Ireland? Small wet place across the Irish Sea, Barry offered kindly. Where they drink a lot? Lisa said faintly. And they never stop talking. That’s the place.
I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie.
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. ‘Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.’ Extract
And not actually the great sacrifice that I’m making
20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hideb...
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You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it.
What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? Why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact cont...
That’s like the dog calling the cat’s arse hairy!
That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to fo...
Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The
Our health is our wealth.
I couldn't stand to be alone. But there was no one that I wanted to be with. And no matter where I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter who I was with, no matter what I was doing, no matter w...
Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.
When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one...
The ability to talk to other people seemed to be leaking out of me like air out of an old balloon.
Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together – Marilyn Monroe
Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.