At all times a heavy ceramic casserole would sit on a pale blue Aga, so should people drop in unexpectedly, I could wander out in my bare feet, welcome them warmly, give them dinner, then press my hom...
Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other’s Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols at dawn.
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 on...
Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The
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.
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.
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
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...
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...
Some people can make their ears move—it’s their party trick. Don’t feel bad if you can’t do it. Just find yourself another party trick.
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.
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?
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...
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.
Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's
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.