The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.
Perhaps the sadness of a divorce doesn’t actually disappear, she realized. Instead you have to incorporate it, learn to coexist with it
Of course I’ll respect you in the morning,’ she reassured. ‘I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,’ she added. ‘But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning.
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
Look, she sighed. You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And a...
Katie's mum, Penny, said I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now.And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest pr...
I’ve brought sandwiches. He indicated a brown paper bag. Let’s play a game. Startled, we looked each other in the eye. We both swallowed hard. I cleared my throat and asked, What’s the game? If I’ve m...
It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one y...
Is it not strange,’ she said, ‘that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?
If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.
I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.
I don’t want to be dead. I’m curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?
Guilt is a self-indulgence.
Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.
Feathery Stokers - There is no definitive list but here are some examples. Men who didn’t eat red meat were Feathery Strokers. Men who used postshave balm instead of slapping stinging aftershave onto...
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the l...
But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it.
But being a survivor is hard bloody work, harder than it looks, and I think I might be running low on survivor juice. Given the choice, I’d far rather a pampered life of indulgence where nothing bad e...
Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.
A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely...