“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.”

“They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.”

“When a man only rings you late at night, when he only wants to see you late at night, when he doesn't take you out for dinner, or introduce you to his friends, or spend any time or attention on you...”

“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 b...”

“All those years when Ronni thought she was sick, all those years convinced that every mole was melanoma, every cough was lung cancer, every case of heartburn was an oncoming heart attack, after all...”

“I don't think it matters who you love, just as long as you love. Who cares whether it's a man or a woman? Why does that have anything more to do with the person inside than the color of someone's s...”

“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 wi...”

“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)”

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, s...”