Quotes from Mike Gayle

Because the universal truth of getting older is obvious: IF YOU ARE A LOSER AT FORTY YOU WILL BE A LOSER FOR LIFE.

let's raise a toast: here's to the Museum of Ordinary People 2.0! And let's hope it doesn't end with us all getting arrested!

Martha kisses me on the cheek too, only she does not wipe away her lipstick afterwards. When she is not looking, I touch where she put her lips. It feels sticky but in a nice way. Like she has left part of her kiss behind for me to find later tonight, when I am in bed and dropping off to sleep.

Like God and McDonalds, Aggi was everywhere

Eventually I had to call upon Dan's master dumping skills to assist me. Which was of course a bad move. A very bad.move. He told her that I was dead.

she didn't love me any more and that was pretty much the beginning of the end.

We met in a charity shop during the summer break.

I shuddered at the thought and from that point on did my best to stop thinking.

we fell out of love, but only one of us was prepared to say it.

Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.

youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

Sooner or later change kills everything, mate,' I say. 'It's the way of the world.

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

even the path of least resistance leads somewhere, and not necessarily to the place you want to end up.

I continue to love you with a strength I didn't know was possible. I love you because you are part of me. I love you because loving you is like loving myself. I know that, despite all that has happened, you are a good man. And I won't... I can't give you up.

How's being in love with your middle brother's girlfriend going?

sometimes love is more of a decision than it is a feeling. Sometimes you just have to choose to remember the good times and forget the rest.' 25 Every word Tom Walking home in the sunshine of the late afternoon, I felt curiously both drained and elated as I went over the events of the past few weeks, trying to make sense of them.

You leak stories about the other side to the media and that way your client seems less guilty.

I wanted to put as much love and care into the taking apart of my wonderful mum's home as had been poured into bringing it all together in the first place?

She closed the first-aid tin and returned it to the shelf. 'You're all fixed.' Hubert gingerly traced a finger over the cut above his eye. 'Thank you, thank you very much.' The young woman smiled. 'You're welcome Mr . . . in all that kerfuffle I don't think you actually told me your name.' 'Hubert, Hubert Bird. And yours?' A faint smile played on her lips as they shook hands. 'Joyce,' she replied, 'Joyce Pierce.

Terjadi begitu saja bukan?" kata Gershwin. "Kehidupan menjadi sibuk. Prioritas berubah. Kita hanya bisa menyalahkan diri sendiri, sungguh.

Looking back, I don't think there was ever a point where I officially gave up on my dreams; instead I think it happened gradually, as these things do, so that I barely noticed the shift in my thinking.

sometimes I struggle to get the thoughts out of my head because they are stuck behind one another like cars in a traffic jam.

I find myself whispering an apology to the person I used to be.