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21 " Mallachy has given me so many unexpected wonderful moments over the past few weeks, moments when I’ve forgotten everything else and just let myself sink into happiness. But perhaps most of all, he gave me this. "
― Libby Page , The Island Home
22 " It’s a city I’ve lived in for years, but a place where I’ve never made a network of friends or found a sense of really belonging. I can see now that it’s my own fault – I built walls around myself in an attempt to protect myself and my daughter. Maybe those walls kept some pain out but they also shut out joy. This is the place and the life I chose, but this summer has shown me how small my life here has been. How small my entire life has become. "
23 " How dare you!’ my father shouted. ‘Lying to us, running around the island like a spoilt brat, giving our neighbours every reason to think what they already do – that you’re out of control. "
24 " Since marrying Jack, I have never once spent Christmas away from the island. Whenever I argued for us to take up offers from my sisters to stay with them he always feigned needing to stay and keep up the farm, but I knew that really, he didn’t want to deal with the consequences of going against his parents. "
25 " She nods and I realise how refreshing it is to speak to this woman who grew up with my husband. She may not have seen him in years but she knows him in a way that perhaps no one else does. That’s just the way with siblings. They are with you throughout those pivotal moments that shape you into the person you will eventually become. I don’t think that thread can ever really be broken, not completely. "
26 " Fine,’ he says. ‘I cared for them for years, I looked after them when they were dying. But fine, come and help at the house. I’ll be going over there in a couple of days. "
27 " But he only had eleven chest-hairs’ worth of life inside him, and he knew that wasn’t enough to help her. "
― Libby Page , The Lido
28 " Never be sorry,’ she says, a storm in her eyes. ‘Never be sorry for feeling. Never be sorry for falling in love. "
29 " I want to tell her that those moments cycling with her were some of the happiest of my childhood, that I think about them all the time. But despite her smile, I think perhaps we’re not there yet. "
30 " Tickets for the Brixton Academy tonight,’ yells a ticket tout at the station entrance. ‘Buying and selling, tickets for the "