The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

- Celia Fremlin

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

- Celia Fremlin

Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in…

- Celia Fremlin

Hope lights up our darkness.

- Celia Fremlin

Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

- Celia Fremlin