The No-Show Quotes

“Books are my happy place,”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“I don't want you to be perfect. Why would I want that? I want you. I want all the parts of you, the broken ones, the ones you've kept hidden away.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“As a rule, she prefers plants and cats to humans these days. They’re both species with a much better track record.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“That sort of kindness, it gets into your bones. Once you’ve felt it, you can’t help but look for ways to pass the feeling on.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“It’s one of those feelings, happiness. One of the ones you don’t really notice is gone until it comes back.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Love Yourself First:Don't Wait for Him to Do It for You”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Most people are shit, it reads. What are you going to do about it?”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“It seems astonishing that she is still walking forwards, one foot in front of the other; the people around her look real, and her feet underneath her look real, but she feels a powerful, urgent need to ask someone, Am I here? Are you sure? Is this me?”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“as Aggie reminded her this morning–being brave doesn’t have to mean she changes everything all at once.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Most people are shit, what are you going to do about it? And she thinks, I’m going to notice all the ones who are doing their very best not to be.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Perhaps I am not so hard to like, Jane thinks fiercely as she meets Aggie’s eyes. Perhaps I am not so peculiar, so awkward, so difficult. Perhaps he was wrong about all that, too. “Good, eh?” Aggie says. “Yes,” Jane says, and she smiles. To her immense surprise, she’s happy. It’s one of those feelings, happiness. One of the ones you don’t really notice is gone until it comes back.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“I’ve just validated all your stuff about how people always let you down, haven’t I? You’re not mad because you’re not even surprised.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Books are my happy place, he’d told her, and she’d felt herself light up, because that’s exactly what they are to her, too.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Every day is a good day, if you look hard enough.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Being a human is messy, Jane, Aggie told her the other day. No amount of rules can fix that. Sometimes you just need to let yourself feel something, even if it's ugly.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Is there anything better than sun on your face?’ he asks.
The way you smile when you clock me across the street>, Jane thinks. The feeling when our hands brush. The smell of you, cedarwood and lemon.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Siobhan breathes out slowly through her nose. She’s aiming for calm, but it reads more angry bull than zen.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“You're not on your own now, Jane. You've got me. Always.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“I want to make you so happy, Jane,” he says, voice choked. “I want to bring you coffee with cream in bed every morning, and I want to make you laugh, really belly-laugh the way you hardly ever do, and I want to read books and eat cinnamon buns and know what outfit you like to wear on a Sunday. I want to be part of your routine. I want to stand next to you in a crowded party and hold your hand tight and make you feel safe. I want to know you, all your habits, all the secrets you’ve held in. You’re not on your own now, Jane. You’ve got me. Always”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“It’s like—it’s like saying she’s really gone, and I don’t want to say it, Miranda, I don’t want to let her go, because I said I never would, I said I’d never leave her, and she was so afraid I would and I don’t want to. I can’t. I can’t let her go.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“I love summer,” she says idly, “but I prefer spring. All that hope, everything waiting to come to life.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“That’s the difference between a friend and a lover, Jane. A friend doesn’t need the whole of you. If you don’t want to tell me about your life before we met, I don’t give a toss—I’m in it for the Jane that’s here and now, aren’t I? I take you as you come. But if I loved you, I’d want everything. Wouldn’t I? Don’t you want all of him? All his secrets? All the versions of Joseph that exist out there, all the people he is when he’s at work and with his mother and with the lads at the pub?”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“She has never really imagined herself as having a process. She is a before-and-after: she was one person, and then she gave away her belongings, got on a train, and became someone else. The idea that she is still in evolution is genuinely quite shocking to her.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Being present is something Siobhan struggles with. But right now, she’s never felt more in a moment in her life.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“She said, I’m ninety-six, Colin. When you get to my age you don’t give enough of a shit about anything to have ‘objections.’ ”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“Miranda is just one of those people: she picks the label off her beer bottle, she itches mosquito bites. She can't leave things alone.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“It's one of those feelings, happiness. One of the ones you don't totally notice is gone until it comes back.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“She followed the sounds to the tree surgeons training in the land management college up the road from her secondary.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“I don't want you to be perfect. Why would I want that? I want you. I want all the parts of you, the broken ones, the ones you've kept hidden away.”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

“La felicidad es una de esas emociones que no notas que se ha ido hasta que regresa”
― Beth O'Leary, The No-Show