If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

Dont run before you can walk

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.