42 Quotes by Joanna Cannon

I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life.

It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complain very quietly to yourself about its ordinariness. You might with for something more interesting to happen, something to back of your routine, and just when you think you can't bear the monotony any longer, something comes along that shatters your life to such degree. you with with every cell in your body that your day hadn't become so unordinary.

The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener.

Dusk Description, "the sun is trimming the rooftops and starting to unbutton the day".

It’s when you catch the clock, holding on to a second for just a fraction longer than it should. When the world gives you just a little bit more time to make the right decision. There are long seconds all over the place. We just don’t always notice them.

After my bedroom, this was my favourite place in the world. It was carpeted, and had heavy bookcases and ticking clocks and velvet chairs, just like someone’s living room. It smelled of unturned pages and unseen adventures, and on every shelf were people I had yet to meet, and places I had yet to visit. Each time, I lost myself in the corridors of books and the polished, wooden rooms, deciding which journey to go on next. Mrs.

There was no horizon. I never thought I would lose the horizon along with everything else, but when you get old you realize whichever direction you choose to face, you find yourself confronted with a landscape filled up with loss.

It’s strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complain very quietly to yourself about its ordinariness. You might with for something more interesting to happen, something to back of your routine, and just when you think you can’t bear the monotony any longer, something comes along that shatters your life to such degree. you with with every cell in your body that your day hadn’t become so unordinary.