“Being nice is a good thing. You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”
―
Beth O'Leary,
The Flatshare
“Remind myself that there is no saving of people—people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they're ready.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“My dad likes to say, ‘Life is never simple’. This is one of his favourite aphorisms.I actually think it’s incorrect. Life is often simple, but you don’t notice how simple it was until it gets incredibly complicated, like how you never feel grateful for being well until you’re ill, or how you never appreciate your tights drawer until you rip a pair and have no spares.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“I wake with a jolt that sends a shock of pain through my ankle. Crying out, I look around me. Floral wallpaper. Am I at home? Who's that man in the chair by the door, reading .... "Twilight?" Leon blinks at me, putting the book down in his lap. 'You went from unconscious to judgemental very quickly there.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“It was never home until you were there, Tiffy.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“It’s weird how easily you can get to know someone from the traces they leave behind when they go.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Look,' he says, 'have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can't actually start it?''Oh totally. All the time - if I had a grain of self-restraint I never would've been able to read the last Harry Potter book. The anticipation was painful. You know like what if it does live up to the last ones? What if it's not what I hope it'll be?” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Switch
“Have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Some people are beyond aromatherapeutic help” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Your brain can do amazing stuff to protect itself from pain," Mo tells me. "But it'll struggle to keep secrets from the rest of you for long.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“That’s the way with old friends. You understand each other, even when there’s not enough words out there for everything that should be said.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Switch
“But that’s the thing about almost: you can be ninety-nine per cent there, you can be an inch away from doing it, but if you stop yourself from stepping over that line, nobody will ever know how close you were.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Road Trip
“I stop dead in my tracks. Someone behind me walks into me and swears (stopping abruptly in central London is a heinous crime, and immediately gives the people around you permission to kick you).” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“We're so overdressed for a daytime event about crochet.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“When people talk about loss, they always say you'll never be the same, that it will change you, leave a hole in your life. ( . . . ) But when you lose somebody you love, you don't lose everything they gave you. They leave something with you.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Switch
“Two a.m. is a terrible time for dwelling on legal issues. Worst of all the times. If midnight is witching hour, 2 a.m. is dwelling hour.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“This is the bit where we turn on the telly and a nuclear war has started," I say, twisting to lie down next to him.He smiles. "I don't think so. Doesn't work that way. Sometimes the happy thing just happens.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“oversharing is contagious.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Remind myself that there is no saving of people—people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they're ready.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“My dad likes to say, ‘Life is never simple’. This is one of his favourite aphorisms.I actually think it’s incorrect. Life is often simple, but you don’t notice how simple it was until it gets incredibly complicated, like how you never feel grateful for being well until you’re ill, or how you never appreciate your tights drawer until you rip a pair and have no spares.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“I wake with a jolt that sends a shock of pain through my ankle. Crying out, I look around me. Floral wallpaper. Am I at home? Who's that man in the chair by the door, reading .... "Twilight?" Leon blinks at me, putting the book down in his lap. 'You went from unconscious to judgemental very quickly there.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“It was never home until you were there, Tiffy.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“It’s weird how easily you can get to know someone from the traces they leave behind when they go.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Look,' he says, 'have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can't actually start it?''Oh totally. All the time - if I had a grain of self-restraint I never would've been able to read the last Harry Potter book. The anticipation was painful. You know like what if it does live up to the last ones? What if it's not what I hope it'll be?” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Switch
“Have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Some people are beyond aromatherapeutic help” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“Your brain can do amazing stuff to protect itself from pain," Mo tells me. "But it'll struggle to keep secrets from the rest of you for long.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“That’s the way with old friends. You understand each other, even when there’s not enough words out there for everything that should be said.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Switch
“But that’s the thing about almost: you can be ninety-nine per cent there, you can be an inch away from doing it, but if you stop yourself from stepping over that line, nobody will ever know how close you were.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Road Trip
“I stop dead in my tracks. Someone behind me walks into me and swears (stopping abruptly in central London is a heinous crime, and immediately gives the people around you permission to kick you).” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“We're so overdressed for a daytime event about crochet.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“When people talk about loss, they always say you'll never be the same, that it will change you, leave a hole in your life. ( . . . ) But when you lose somebody you love, you don't lose everything they gave you. They leave something with you.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Switch
“Two a.m. is a terrible time for dwelling on legal issues. Worst of all the times. If midnight is witching hour, 2 a.m. is dwelling hour.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“This is the bit where we turn on the telly and a nuclear war has started," I say, twisting to lie down next to him.He smiles. "I don't think so. Doesn't work that way. Sometimes the happy thing just happens.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
“oversharing is contagious.” ― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare
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