Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.