Let It Snow

by Beth Moran

‘Why focus on the one small thing that’s not perfect, when the rest is so good?’

We live in the middle of Sherwood Forest. How do you think Robin Hood got about every winter?’

Ish.’ ‘Is that a scientific term?’

‘Everybody knew about your graffiti editing.’

pass Henry off as my ‘emotional support person’,

while talking to me about potentially getting stuck in a blizzard, trying to figure out where he was going to sleep that night, Henry had not only noticed a man looking stressed, and then bothered to go and offer help. He’d rummaged through the contents of a service station bin.

starting to appreciate that he was abnormal in some of the best ways.

‘Because the fact that you never wear things like this suggests that the uncool, quirky Bea might be the real you. Your work outfits are hardly conventional weather-presenting garb.’

‘I think the coolest thing you can do is be yourself.’ He paused, coughed, shrugged. ‘I always admired that about you.’

‘It’s the kind of insult that leaves a scar.’

‘Clothes are an expression of who you are as a person. They tell people what you’re like, how you see yourself.’

I can’t tell you with any certainty how we will be connecting in ten years’ time, but I can tell you that we will be connecting, because that’s what people do.

It’s making the people who tune in know that they aren’t alone, because those day-to-day things that matter to them matter to me too.

people will always need people.’

value of authenticity. Being true to yourself and what you believe to be important in the small things as well as the big ones.’

have sworn that Henry Fairfax and I were different in all the ways that mattered, when it came to our values, what lay at the heart of us, we were far more similar than I’d have wanted to admit.

Henry made me feel interesting.

You can beat yourself up about what’s happened. Allow the guilt to keep gnawing away. Or, you can accept that the only thing you can change now is what happens next. Make the most of that.’

‘They’re actually for Bea Armstrong’s grandma.’

going to stand a chance, it couldn’t be based on romantic gestures and starry-eyed dreams. Let alone old memories. I wanted someone to be there for me in the nitty-gritty, ordinary every day.

‘Another road trip with my favourite weathergirl, where anything can happen and probably will? It’s my pleasure.’ He looked over again. ‘Hey, maybe your animatronic elf would like to come, too?’

sometimes it’s worth taking a huge risk for something that means so much to you, even if other people might consider it to be foolish and irresponsible.’