Anna Maxted > Quotes

“...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.”
― Anna Maxted, Being Committed

“When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.”
― Anna Maxted, A Tale of Two Sisters

“We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“Curiosity was a mild irritant, but nothing in the face of fear like this. By doing nothing, I determined that nothing would change, and it didn't. People moan about being in limbo, but actually, I found limbo the safest place to be.”
― Anna Maxted, A Tale of Two Sisters

“Jack had the power to make my heart fly. He also had the power to shoot it out of the sky. Because, let’s not forget, love isn’t just about the flying.”
― Anna Maxted, Being Committed

“But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“If I said that I couldn't live without Tom, it wouldn't be true. Of course I can live without him. It's just that it isn't going to be much fun.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“People who don't get excited about receiving gifts are tired of life.”
― Anna Maxted, Being Committed

“There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.”
― Anna Maxted

“Her cupboards are crammed with Cappuccino mix. No one needs Cappuccino mix. It's not diginified. She watched 'Super Size Me' and went straight to McDonald's. She did the Atkins Diet, "but with potatoes.”
― Anna Maxted, A Tale of Two Sisters

“(I resent people who use phrases like "my first," so the person they're speaking to is practically obliged to imagine them having sex to complete the sentence. It's not nice.)”
― Anna Maxted

“Grief is a private, internal thing. No one can say their pain is worse than yours because they don't know. So maybe it's not good to compare. Maybe it's better to talk to people who know you.”
― Anna Maxted, Getting Over It

“Come on, Lizbet, that man adores you, he worships your body with his eyes.”
― Anna Maxted, A Tale of Two Sisters

“I knew I wasn't second best for Tim (just as I knew that in real life, Jolene's flaming locks and eyes of emerald green stood no change against the aces of spades that was Dolly Parton's chest), but it took some believing, because I'd been second best to my sister for most of my life. That shakes your faith in yourself.”
― Anna Maxted, A Tale of Two Sisters