The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.