When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let a...
What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?People w...
We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
Sitting at the table with the kids, and being told off like a kid, has liberated me; my disenfranchisement has empowered me.
Seseorang yang tidak terlalu berbeda dariku, jawab Marcus diplomatis. Baiklah, semoga beruntung, kata Katrina. Banyak dari kita yang menghabiskan separuh hidup untuk mencari seseorang yang tidak terla...
Jackie and Phil are the most boring people in the southeast of England, possibly because they've been married too long, and therefore have nothing to talk about, apart from how long they've been marri...
It didn't help that I was never allowed to study anything remotely contemporary until the last year of university: there was never any sense of leading to . If anything, my education gave me the oppo...
If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn’t have believed it.
If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.
I've developed contours for his elbows and knees and bum, and nobody else quite fits into me in quite the same way
I'm going to take every chance I get to make a nuisance of myself when somebody I admire is in the vicinity...
I remember the juvenile stuff, where you put your arm along the sofa and let it drop onto her shoulder, or press your leg against hers; I remember the mock-tough adult stuff I used to try when I was i...
He was one of the first people to complain about the increasing encroachment of the state into personal lives, but, actually, shouldn't there be a little more encroachment, when it came to things like...
He was kind, he was single, he was vulnerable, he made her laugh (not always intentionally, true, but often enough). Every time she saw him, he seemed to have become a little more handsome.
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than t...
He could see why his mum chose (italicized) friends, instead of just putting up with anyone she happened to bump into, or sticking with people who supported the same football team, or wore the same cl...
Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing.
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, a...