10 Quotes by Gillian McAllister

Every house needs a cat,’ he said. ‘Every single one. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.

It’s so easy for false thoughts to pass through the net of your mind, not being caught, and to become truths.

Maybe it really is simply about books, and the things they can do for people.

Keep on keeping on.

He made me somehow see that life didn’t have to be experienced in a big way, and that happiness was small, really.

My entire life I’d been so bloody frightened of what everybody thought of me and my failed existence and yet, when I failed spectacularly – sank so much lower, so much worse than failing a degree – I realized the truth of it: nobody cares what you think as much as you do. Not even close.

Apricity. That’s what it’s called. A word Reuben taught me: the warmth of the sun in winter.

What we were we are; we always will be.

Deep breaths in and out. Feelings weren’t feelings. They were tangled mixtures of hormones: cortisol, adrenaline, rushing through her system, telling her lies. She knew this, and still they felt real.