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paths would have already crossed

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man)

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs ...

It is my honour to act as your ceiling

and it mightn't be

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.

I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.

Optimism can be relearnt.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It

Reality had run and got Sanity.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

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.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

but I couldn't get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

Our health is our wealth.

Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.

No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.

Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.

Fights are part of life, far better to learn to live with them.

Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.

To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.

You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

(The Other side of the Story)"The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass".

Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.

Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?

Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard

I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

Look at me, I believe in the craziest stuff and I have a really fun time.

You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.

I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?

Political correctness is a minefield

Dreaming. But I know it's real." "When I woke up this morning

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?

Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say.

The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

Some people can make their ears move - it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie.

Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter
-The Brightest Star in the Sky.

The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.

ends up sleeping in your bed.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.

If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.

Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period,

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In

Having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.

Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.

They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing.

The ability to talk to other people seemed to be leaking out of me like air out of an old balloon.

Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.

Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.

Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes.

After a pause he says, 'Trust you to bring everything back to sweets.' He is a fine one to talk, him and his birds.

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.