And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

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.

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you