you know how sometimes the time for something just feels right? You leave something and you leave it and you know you should be doing something about it but you keep putting it off, and then something happens and you think, Aha, now I know why I waited, now I know why I put it off, because now is the right moment.
Nothing seemed as it had the day before. Nothing seemed as she’d expected it to seem. In her burnt orange prom dress and dark glasses she felt herself taking on another persona as she walked down the road. For a while she couldn’t quite think who it was she was pretending to be, and then, with a start, she remembered: she was pretending to be herself
Suddenly she knew what babies were for. She’d never understood before what possible role a baby would ever play in her life. But now she did. Continuity. The soothing reassurance that it would all carry on, minute after minute, day after day, year after year, century after century. The knowledge that there was more to life than her own limited experience of existence; that long after she was gone, there would be others like her
Like waiting for a bus, the more time you invest in awaiting the outcome the harder it is to walk away.
She’d once read that David Attenborough had been asked what was the most incredible animal he’d ever seen, and he’d replied: A two-year-old child.
Each child represented a whole fascinating story of meetings and feelings and moments and consequences, and each child would go on to make their own stories too.
В Уэльсе умерли ее мать и отец. Там умерло ее детство ...
Хорошо, когда знаешь, чего хочешь. Это значит, что ты совершаешь в жизни меньше ошибок.
Вот что такое иметь братьев и сестёр. Это легкость духа, это смех и похвальба, это избавление серьёзных предметов от ненужной весомости, прояснение туманных вопросов.
Ты - наша жизнь. Ты - наше все. Нам все равно, чем ты занимаешься, лишь бы ты была счастлива.