A Year of Being Single Quotes

“You’re a Dick?’ ‘Ha, you’re quick. No, I’m Richard.’ ‘Dick,’ said Imogen, choosing to ignore him. ‘There’s quite a few famous dicks. Dick Turpin… Dick Emery… Dick for Brains,’ she said. ‘Actually, I couldn’t care less what your name is. You shouldn’t park here. You’re causing an obstruction.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“Men were a mistake. A big mistake. And no man would ever hurt her again.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“No man is going to hurt me like that again.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“Men were a waste of time. Useless, hopeless, feckless disappointments, every one of them.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“She not only saw the wood for the trees, she saw the entire forest and it was desolate and scrappy.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“They had freedom, they had power; they could please themselves and would make sure they did. None of them had a man. None of them wanted a man. None of them needed a man.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“carry their own suitcases, take their own cars through the carwash and unscrew the lids on their own jars. If they didn’t know how to do something they would ask each other, as one of them probably would. Or they would ask Google and work it out.”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“They were independent women – self-sufficient, autonomous. They could change their own light bulbs and the batteries in their smoke alarms, refill their own windscreen wash bottles in their cars, put out their own bins,”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“English”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single

“He looked serious and a bit hacked off. He actually does”
― Fiona Collins, A Year of Being Single