What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoyi…

- Jenny Valentine

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.

- Jenny Valentine

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

- Jenny Valentine

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

- Jenny Valentine

I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have tim…

- Jenny Valentine

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you could…

- Jenny Valentine

Everything is going to be fine.” I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idio…

- Jenny Valentine

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

- Jenny Valentine

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

- Jenny Valentine