…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.