The New Mrs D Quotes

“There is a word in the Greek language for which there is no English equivalent. It is ‘meraki’ and it means ‘doing something with soul, creativity or love – when you put something of yourself into what you are doing’. –”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D

“To all the lovely ladies and the equally lovely men, Put on that favourite album from your youth, march to the kitchen henceforth, open the drawer – you know the one – with the wooden spoon inside it! Pull out that spoon-cum-microphone, turn up the music and sing your heart out. Use nothing less than the power of the top of your voice. Now, be thankful. You’re a legend in your own lifetime. And there will never be another you.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Discovered my superpower isn’t making a cool ‘KSSHHH KSHHH’ noise when I walk. Unrelated: Now have 40 smartphone photos of the inside of my pocket.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“And, dammit, I want to be extraordinary!”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Thou shalt remember that God is all around. . . . And she doesn’t like swearing.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Thou shalt cease looking in magnified mirrors for evidence of beard.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Thou shalt never again indulge in negative self-talk.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“1. Thou shalt do one thing a day that scares the crap out of you.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Your eyes are full of hate 41. That’s good. Hate keeps a man alive; it gives him strength.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“If only hindsight was less ‘hind’ and more ‘sight’.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy