Don’t You Forget About Me

‘In my experience, whatever you call “change” is finding more out about someone’s nature. But it was always there.’

‘She made the wrong choices in life, they made her unhappy. Unhappy people take it out on others.’

Yearning and pining for more, or what the kids call FOMO, fear of missing out, is the curse of the modern age,’

‘Sometimes because the people we wanted to care for us, didn’t care for us, we live with a deliberate lack of care for ourselves. A way of getting back at them, through self-neglect.’

Your real problems are never the things you fret most about. This has an upside – sometimes you’ve fretted without cause.

Here’s what life has taught me so far: don’t worry about that thing you’re worrying about. Chances are, it’ll be obliterated by something you didn’t anticipate that’s a million times worse.

‘Nope, there’s no such thing as karma and people don’t get what they deserve. It’s a comforting myth to reconcile us to the savage randomness of the universe and wrongs inflicted upon us.’

‘… There’s what you think being in love is when you’re nineteen or twenty and then what it actually is when you’re a grown-up, and these are two different things. But some of us keep looking for the first version long after we should’ve let it go,’

Dad once told me I was a natural show-off who hates being the centre of attention: ‘a paradox you will have to resolve one day’.

When there is so much left unsaid, your mind is free to fill in the words that were never exchanged in a hundred thousand different ways