I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

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)

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.