If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.