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1 " You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you. "
― Beth O'Leary , The Switch
2 " That’s the way with old friends. You understand each other, even when there’s not enough words out there for everything that should be said. "
3 " When people talk about loss, they always say you'll never be the same, that it will change you, leave a hole in your life. ( . . . ) But when you lose somebody you love, you don't lose everything they gave you. They leave something with you. "
4 " If you're holding someone close enough, you can be the shoulder and the crier. "
5 " We don’t have any good words for talking about death – they’re all too small. "
6 " I think you should know,' he says. 'I like you. Like I shouldn't. That sort of like. "
7 " and remind myself for the hundredth time how important it is to support other women in business. I really, fully believe that. It’s a code I live by, and it’s how I plan to make it to the top. "
8 " Family can be so complicated, but if you just pick your own way of doing it you can end up with something pretty perfect all the same. "
9 " Is it really an adventure if you don't make at least one ill-advised decision? "
10 " I'm rather worn out, and it's an awful lot easier to be independent when there's somebody else there with you "
11 " That’s the way with old friends, you understand each other even when there’s not enough words out there for everything that should be said. "
12 " That’s the messy thing about family tragedy, I guess. Your best support network goes under in an instant. "
13 " I'm a teacher... no millions at stake, just futures. "
14 " Never been one for worst-case scenarios,” Jackson says. He crouches to dip his roller in the tray; his wrists are flecked with paint now, new, brighter freckles. “When they happen, you cope. And it’s usually one you’ve not thought of that gets you, so why worry? "
15 " I think part of what had made me so angry with my mum was the fact that I felt she should have been looking after me, not the other way around. But Mum couldn’t be my shoulder to cry on, not when she was bent double with grief herself. That’s the messy thing about family tragedy, I guess. Your best support network goes under in an instant. "
16 " Perhaps the lady is losing her marbles a little. It’s started happening to Penelope – terribly sad, though on the plus side she seems to have forgotten that she can’t stand Roland. It’s been something of a second honeymoon for the two of them. "
17 " We don't have any good words for talking about death. They're all too small. "
18 " The person on the other side is the sort of elderly lady who turns out to be an alien in a Doctor Who episode. Just way too perfectly old-lady-ish. "
19 " If you want something done well, do it yourself, "
20 " When Marian stops doing yoga, I know things are bad. "