Quotes from Alan Gibbons

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Riley was the exception to the feast of cholesterol. For him it was dry toast, black coffee and lashings of self pity.

Sometimes, when I was looking out for my own happiness, I almost forgot you existed.

Was it too much to expect a future?