I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.
The fact is that blaming doesn’t get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.
Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.
All those years of beauty, of a wonderful figure, and all I could think was that I was never pretty enough, never slim enough, never quite good enough. What I would give to have those years back, to appreciate them more, to appreciate the life I had while I was living it.
Forever feels a long time when you’re eighteen. When you’re away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.
No!” Sally said. “I didn’t want you here in the first place. Why are you here? What do you want from me? Do you want to take my stuff?” She snatched the tiara from her head and cradled it against her chest. “Is that it? You think you can come here and help yourself to my pre- cious jewels? Get out of here! I can’t stand you, Grace. 1 never could. Always whining, whining, whining. Why are you here? What do you want from me? You always.
Whenever our friends get involved with married men we hear about what they say and it’s always the same and we always tell our friends that he’s never going to leave her, but the minute it happens to us, the minute we meet a married man and he says he loves his wife but he’s not in love with her, we believe him.
No, really, it’s fine,” says the woman, getting up to leave.
That’s the mark of true friends. That we might not see each other for a year but when we do it’s as if we were never apart.
When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.
But maybe love doesn’t have to be about lust, maybe I could learn to love, maybe.
I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.
The best things in life always find us when we’re not looking for them.
Luck is not on her side today. It wasn’t on her side this morning when she woke up to hear a door slamming downstairs and her husband bel- lowing her name, and it isn’t on her side now.
For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.
However close you are, you know that’s another friend you won’t be seeing anymore. You won’t have anything in common anymore, since you are not interested in babies, and they are no longer interested in life.
The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.
She would use her beauty and her clothes as armor, rise above it and refuse to let anyone see how much she hurt.
I suppose you can’t help who you fancy, can you? And that was the bottom line, I fancied Nick. Fancied him more than I’d fancied anyone in years, and somehow, when someone gives you that tingly feeling in the pit of your stomach, you stop thinking about the rights and wrongs, the shoulds and should nots, and you just go with it.
It wasn’t what you knew, he always said, it was who you knew.