You need some accessories. Some businesswoman-type accessories. Like what? A Filofax?
You have no idea how many people there are in the world until you start getting freaked out by them.
We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow.OK, let's not go there. There...
That moment. That instant when your fingers curl round the handles of a shiny, uncreased bag—and all the gorgeous new things inside it become yours. What’s it like? It’s like going hungry for days, th...
Stuff that balances out the bright and shiny, just like there is for all of us. Bright and shiny on the one side, the crappy truth on the other. I think I've finally figured out how to feel good about...
Sometimes I worry my ideas might dry up', he says, an odd tone to his voice. 'I'm not sure who I'd be without them. Sometimes I think I'm really just an empty vessel floating about, downloading ideas...
Luke!...We have to be able to do cool dancing so we don't embarrass our child!I'm a very cool dancer, replies Luke. Very cool indeed,No you're not!I had dance lessons in my teens, you know, he retorts...
It doesn’t matter, she says, her voice soft. Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing all the answers. You don’t always have to know who you are. You don’t have to have the big picture, or know where yo...
I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn’t matter if you slip down. As long as you’re kind of heading more or less upwar...
I still remember Mum. Kind of. I have dim splashes of memory like an unfinished watercolor.
I can’t believe how much damage has been done, just from teenage loves meeting again. People should never come into contact with their first loves, I decide. There should be some official form of quar...
And then Jo met Professor Bhaer, so we had to watch that bit. And then Beth died. So I guess the March sisters were on their own jagged graph too.
You sound like Darth Vader, I say bluntly. Elinor doesn’t even flinch. So be it, she says, and sips her water. That is totally a Darth Vader thing to say. Next she’ll be ordering the destruction of a...
You remember that Christmas when they got ill? Mum says presently. The year they were about two and three? Remember? And got poo all over their Christmas stockings, and it was everywhere, and we said,...
You panicked. Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at C...
You know what Hans told me last week? she says as I open the door of my fitting room. He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd fe...
Which is just grief, I guess. I've decided that grief is like a newborn baby. It knocks you for six. It takes over your brain with its incessant cry. It stops you sleeping or eating or functioning, an...
I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: they have their own crappy truths, too. Of course they do. And every time you see...
I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say Sushi! out of the blue. It would be like going up...
But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. maybe not the easy thin...