Once the door to one disaster had opened, the possibilities for catastrophe seemed open-ended and I felt I'd no choice but to go along with my life as it unraveled.

The stars are always there, even in the daylight. Sometimes we just can't see them.

You don't have to sleep with someone, you can be unfaithful with your emotions.

Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.

But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it.

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it.

The first flush couldn't last for ever. Everyone knew that.

In the darkness she wrapped her arms around him and pressed herself against his snuggly warmth, a blissful hum in her veins. She was safe and loved, in bed with her man.