73 Quotes by Allison Pearson

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl.

When you’re young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you’re too young to understand, and when she’s old you shield her because she’s too old to understand – or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don’t want to know.

The great thing about unrequited love is it’s the only kind that lasts.

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job – and it was like a light came on inside her. It’s not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.