42 Quotes by Joanna Cannon

Perhaps there are times when your life is so unbearably miserable, and yet the only part of you that can run away from it and leave is your mind.

You can spot someone you know, even in a strange place or in a crowd of people. Theres something about a person that fits into your eyes.

...I've spent so long standing at the edge that when I finally turn away, I doubt there is anyone in this world who will even notice.

But sometimes life takes you along a path you only intended to glance down on your way to somewhere else, and when you look back, you realise the past wasn’t the straight line you thought it might be.

Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distracted himself so much, he found himself drowning in distractions, and all the little details in the world seemed to join up together in his head and make a whole new problem to worry about.

I will watch Harry Potter before I die.

And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

You'll understand as you get older. You can spot them a mile off, You'll learn to cross the street.' [...] 'Perhaps that's why they don't mix,' said Tilly, 'because everyone else is on the other side of the street?

It's all in the past, except every time you start talking about it, it stops being in the past, and starts being in the present again.