… you don’t have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.
That’s the problem with lying. You can never remember what you’ve said.
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.
I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.
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.
Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.
People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.
There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.
You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.
The fact is that blaming doesn’t get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.
They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
I believed our touching to be more intense because of it’s very holding back. Belief is always a choice.
Marriage should be about fun. It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.
It’s not what you think about that matters in life, it’s what you actually do about it.
It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or evolved, when we are back in our childhood homes, we become exactly who we have always been.
That’s how it is with relationships, it’s a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn’t make it any easier though.
He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer—-she still couldn’t say anything, couldn’t think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.
As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I’m not terribly interested, and I don’t have the patience for it.
Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.