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1 " When life is awful, it’s a terrible thing to live without hope. There’s nothing worse than to believe that nothing will ever change – that every day will continue to be like every other. "
― Nick Alexander , From Something Old
2 " Being happy, it seems to me, requires wanting what you have, whereas being unhappy requires wanting something different. "
3 " My relationship with my sister had become so complicated by then that we only ever spoke on the phone. As for Sheena, even phone conversations had become challenging to the point where I’d pretend to miss her calls. The problem in both cases was the same: my own inconsistency. Due to my litany of complaints about Ant’s behaviour, they’d individually come to realise that he wasn’t the nicest person. But as they’d ceased, one after the other, telling me to stop whingeing and begun, instead, to encourage me to leave him, I’d found myself rather perversely defending him. A point had been reached where no matter how Kerry or Sheena reacted to whatever I’d just told them about Ant, good or bad, I’d find myself telling them they were wrong "
