Quotes from Lucy Diamond

Sometimes you've just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.

The thing about settling down that freaks me out is that you're being honest, You're saying, this is me. This is what I can do. This is it.

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

Whereas while you're travelling, nobody really knows. While you're travelling you still have the potential to do anything, be anything. It's only when you stop and actually try to do those things that you discover your own capabilities, I guess.

It was a view I never tired of, especially

she thought darkly, sploshing cold Sauvignon Blanc into two glasses and knocking back half of

It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

else would I be hiding

the green numerals of Jo's bedside clock telling her that it was 3.08: insomniacs' hour.

It was all very well being a can-do independent twenty-first-century woman, but sometimes she just wished her dad was still around to take care of stuff like this.

It was getting harder to fake the smile, harder to make the effort.

Please God, Let that be true. We all need to feel some happiness again soon.

People who switch their niceness on and off are not to be trusted.

but lots of women have a soft spot for their first loves, remember.

Everything had come easily to her. her whole life: This was the only thing that remained resolutely beyond her control.

We'll get there. Think of this as an adventure, not a problem.

I was willing to take being second best if it meant I could still . . . you know. Be with him.

She was not a shy person, Georgie, but chatting to friendly baristas in cafés when she ventured out for a coffee or sandwich had so far been the extent of her socializing here in