Things Are Looking Up Quotes

“There are always more opportunities, duckie. Sometimes you just have to look in a different place.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Few things worth having come easy. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying for them.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“And don’t forget. Opportunities are everywhere. You just have to look up and see them.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Jed to be focused on his food – not a surprise. He’d always been a total foodie and it had occasionally been sickening to watch the stuff he could put away and still keep that body. A”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“tenterhooks,”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“I’d spent so long focusing on the end result, doing what others wanted, trying to fit into this perceived mould of what my life should be and look like, and what I should be and look like, that it was entirely possible I’d lost sight of what it was about my chosen career that actually brought me joy.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“liked plans, goals, timescales. That way I could see how far ahead or behind I was in my schedule for the life I had planned out. Except that hadn’t really worked. I was always behind, and every time I’d looked at my five, ten and fifteen year plan I had a burst of anxiety because I wasn’t on schedule and it had fuelled me into working even harder, taking on more, in the hope that this job or that contact would propel me into my neatly mapped out future. But it hadn’t.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“That sometimes you need a second chance because you weren’t quite ready for the first one. Maybe we weren’t ready for our first chance. But I know I’m ready now.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“We spent so much money on things to help us calm down, gadgets, gyms, headphones, retreats. And yet one of the best methods was here, all around us. Even in a city like London. Nature was here. Waiting. Ready to help. You just had to notice it. As I left the churchyard and walked”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Yeah, it seems rough now but every storm runs out of rain at some point. Something will come along that’s better than what you wanted before. But you have to be in a position to take advantage of it…’ He let the sentence drift off but I got his meaning.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Henry bent over me and placed a gentle kiss on my forehead. Even in the low light of the room, when he pulled back, I could see tears shining in his eyes. Henry and I were close and I spent as much time as work would allow with him and his family, but he wasn’t the gushy type. He was sensible, reliable, dependable Henry and the expression on his face was one I’d never seen before. Apart from looking like he hadn’t slept in over a week, his eyes were filled with – what? Frankly, my brain felt a bit on the foggy side, but if I had to try and rootle out a name for it, I’d say it looked like relief. He reached out and pressed a button before focusing his attention fully back on my face.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up