I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Everything has been something before.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.