Susan Calman > Quotes

“Help might not be required, but it’s nice to let a person know that you’re there if assistance is required.”
― Susan Calman, Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate

“I’ve found myself leaving an event or a party paralysed with fear because of something that I’ve said, and spent the next couple of days worrying about what people would think of me. Of course, in reality, the hundred or so people who were at the event didn’t spend the hour after I left the party talking about me. Despite what I might believe, I am not the planet around which everyone else orbits.”
― Susan Calman, Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate

“In my experience, unless experiences are honestly expressed to the right person it’s like throwing biscuits into a tumble dryer.”
― Susan Calman, Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate

“This book you’re reading now, though, isn’t set in the gritty world of pound shops; this book is all real.”
― Susan Calman, Sunny Side Up: a story of kindness and joy

“They told me that they would send the cat social workers round the next weekend to check out the house and see if we were appropriate adopters. I was terrified! What if I wasn’t approved for more cats? It would be like telling Piers Morgan that he wasn’t allowed to be a wanker.”
― Susan Calman, Sunny Side Up: a story of kindness and joy