Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word..

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive note….

Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness….

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell..

Envy was just the tax you paid on success..

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them..

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like sn….

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get t….

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today..

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh..

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life..

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades..

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life..

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you..

And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfa….

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier becau….

In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, b….

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.