That’s right, Karen said, clutching the bag to her chest and looking like Gollum with the Ring. It’s only stuff.
Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I’m forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there’s no way I’d reveal this elderly body to a new man. It’d be like Game of Throne...
So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was disp...
In the same way that the stewards on 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...
I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen Walsh, you're a genius.He had a point. I'm lazy and illogical. I've limited peop...
A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.
Worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.
You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you
Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
The stars are always there, even in the daylight. Sometimes we just can't see them.
Once the door to one disaster had opened, the possibilities for catastrophe seemed open-ended and I felt I'd no choice but to go along with my life as it unraveled.
No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
Mum insists on calling Sat Nav the Talking Map, like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.
It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I’d be washed away in the deluge.
If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.
I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images a...
However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will rev...
But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volun...
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eye...
Sometimes things don’t happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It