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...
Back at my parents’, Mum was waiting with a muffin for me. ‘Banana and pecan. I know it’s the wrong colour but would you try it? Are you okay?’ she asked. ‘You look a bit …’‘Grand,’ I said. ‘It’s just...
Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.
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...
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment,...
You have the look of someone who’ll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it.
Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled?
Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne’s part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all … Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics.
They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing.
They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every...
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look. Claire (Wa...
Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And...
Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard
Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.
Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person.If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks.
My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in...
I’d always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.
It’s upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it’s nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns ou...
It was just that this was real life and no decision was clearly sign-posted. It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and you're life's a d...