I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I’m not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
We’re not ourselves, are we? I’m certainly not myself, not anymore. And you’re not either. You don’t seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
She shouldn’t speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
He’s a better person when she’s around, and isn’t that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
If you’re my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can’t, and if I can’t talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
Maybe we’ve grown out of each other.
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don’t get carried away.
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it’s easier, isn’t it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
I think probably I’m quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I’m very embarrassed by sentiment. I’m very embarrassed by corniness.
I would never complain about ‘One Day’ taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
I’ve been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.