I click to buy it and I’m furious to discover that it’s not available in Ireland and they won’t post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it’s impossible for me to go to Harr...
In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
But Lucy, I've no money.I put my face up to his and smiled. He smiled back.Frankly my dear, I beamed, I don't give a damn.I had always wanted to say that.
He'd done his walls with paint from Holy Basil. God, I yearned for their colors. I hadn't been able to afford them myself but I knew their color chart like the back of my hand. His hall was done in Ga...
Two and a half years ago I’d learned to stop wanting comfort from the people around me, because they couldn’t give it. We were all too scared. I was terrified and so were they. No one could understand...
Instead of thinking, Why me? I think, Why not me?’ Extract from One Blink at a Time In
In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of...
Creating a healthy relationship is like creating a small, land-locked country. The borders are always under threat and every day you have to shore them up. So when something in the country implodes, t...
The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like...
Dreaming. But I know it’s real. When I woke up this morning
Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted Come on in the door is open. Luckily, Reality had come unexpectedly and found Temporary Insanity roaming the corridors of my mind unchecked, go...
Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.
Are you close to your family?'I considered it. 'Close' was one way of putting it. 'We're close,' I said cautiously. 'But we're very mean to each other. This morning I told my mum that if she didn't st...
Why can't we love the right people? 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...
When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. But you’ve loads of shoes, he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head...
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.
Drink never drown anyone's sorrows, he went on. It only teaches them how to swim.
A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong.