41 Quotes by Mike Gayle

It’s funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.

When you think about it finding the perfect partner is a bit like a game of pontoon. I mean, you get your cards and you make your decision, do you stick or twist? do you play safe and settle for 19 or do you go all out for 21 even if you might end up bust?

In the middle of the night, waiting for daylight feels like forever, a forever where you’re stuck going over every bad thought in your head with a fine-tooth comb.

She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you’d want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.

I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it. After a while you just say it to yourself in your head like, ‘I had better not do that, just to be on the safe side.

To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self.

If you haven’t got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.

I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.

If you wait too long for the right moment to tell somebody the truth, it’s practically the same as lying.