I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)