Little Whispers Quotes

“So, have we decided what we’d like to order?’ The waiter reappears, a little more confident now, his pencil poised expectantly above a small white order pad that looks brand new. Isaac’s pet hate: condescending waiter-speak. ‘Yes, we have decided. You can now take our order,’ Isaac says snappily, and the waiter blanches slightly.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“A childhood like that makes for a nervous adult who spends her time working out how to please others, saying yes to everything and wearing herself ragged in the process.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“It all sounds so petty said out loud yet when you’re on the receiving end, it’s very real and hurtful.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“crop the length a bit so it’s a nice blunt bob and then get a balayage next”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“I’m not sure whether I distanced myself or they did, but losing touch with people is something I’ve just accepted happens throughout my life. It seems… safer somehow, relying on no one but yourself.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“indefinitely and yet nothing I do will ever make what happened right. Nothing.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“I’ve always thought it amazing how, up to about nine or ten years of age, kids see chores and responsibilities as proof of a kind of grown-up status. But once they get any older than that, it’s like pulling teeth to get them to do anything to help.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“You’ve got to learn to let go of stuff that doesn’t matter. Whatever happened, it’s all in the past. It has no bearing on your own happiness today.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“Finally I try on the third outfit. The cappuccino-coloured leather skirt feels as”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“silly”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“well,”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“funds.”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers

“gripping”
― K.L. Slater, Little Whispers