Maddie Please > Quotes

“But a sixty-year-old heart can be broken as easily as one of sixteen. He is my brother and I love him; I want only the best things for him.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“You don’t realise how old you are until you sit on the floor and try and get back up again.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“Why did I look like this, when in my head I looked completely different? Who was that woman with the grey hair and the wrinkles? I didn’t have either of those things, when had that happened?”
― Maddie Please, Old Friends Reunited

“A woman’s best days are the ones she chooses. Her best outfit is the one she feels most comfortable in. Her best life is the one she lives with optimism and resolution.”
― Maddie Please, Old Friends Reunited

“Perhaps we all felt the same way? Changed outside by the passing of the years, but pretty much the same inside. Battered by our life experiences but still standing.”
― Maddie Please, Sunrise With The Silver Surfers

“You see, that's one of the rubbish things about being older: you're still there taking up space, needing stuff, wanting attention, but you gradually become invisible and unimportant. It's very annoying.”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“remember, someone is out there holding their breath and waiting for you to fail. Make sure they suffocate, that’s what I say.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“was Don Quixote mixed with Blazing Saddles.”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“I would rather be the one left at home in the warm, with my cobwebs, a new bottle of Baileys and a book.”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“Changed outside by the passing of the years, but pretty much the same inside. Battered by our life experiences but still standing.”
― Maddie Please, Sunrise With The Silver Surfers

“the people who give you their food give you their heart. It’s a nice thought.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“My years with Tom had somehow crushed a lot of my self-belief. Although crushed was probably the wrong word. It hadn't been as simple as that or as instant. Tom's campaign of making me feel unworthy, second-rate, was more a gentle but persistent squeeze over the years, so gradual that I hadn't really noticed.”
― Maddie Please, Sunrise With The Silver Surfers

“the”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“Italian wedding soup”: a perfect marriage between tiny little meatballs, acini de pepe pasta and parmesan. And these cheeses are”
― Maddie Please, A Vintage Vacation

“lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” Lovely, isn’t it?”
― Maddie Please, Old Girls on Deck

“Somehow now things were different. I felt new stirrings of confidence, I couldn’t change the past, but I could be in control of my future.”
― Maddie Please, Sunrise With The Silver Surfers

“which didn’t”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“am too much for some people, but then they aren’t my people.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Hen Do

“And yet I’d read only recently how their generation were riddled with self-doubt and the pressures of social media. How they worried about everything, the planet, global warming, their relationships, money, war, cosmetic surgery. Were their bottoms too big or not big enough? (Thanks Kardashians.) How very sad. So perhaps the perceived advantages between ‘us’ and ‘them’ were not quite so one-sided as I had thought. I couldn’t remember a single occasion when I had worried about photoshopping or being ‘beach ready’ in January. I’d only had my top lip waxed once – never again. And never any other bit of me either, for fear of the pain (if the lip experience was anything to go by). We hadn’t grown up with so many gadgets or television channels as the younger generations. Which in itself was a blessing. How many crime dramas did we actually need to watch, how many reality shows, how many un-funny comedies? We’d had to do our research in libraries, but now they had limitless information at the touch of a keyboard. In my day, if the school bullies had wanted a target, they did it out in the open. These women had to deal with faceless trolls. They had security worries, all sorts of privacy issues. So who really had the better experience of being a woman? Or had it always just been difficult for everyone? And what about men, come to think of it… If one believed the newspapers, it seemed half of the human race was being summarily dismissed as idiots or fiends.”
― Maddie Please, Old Friends Reunited

“and”
― Maddie Please, Sunrise With The Silver Surfers

“Okay, there were bad things out there too, I didn’t think everything was great, but if everyone focussed on the bad stuff all the time no one would ever go anywhere or do anything. And that wasn’t going to be me. Not”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“Now look, Kim, during the week my body is a temple. At the weekends and on holiday it’s a student union, with a sticky floor. With a punk band playing.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Hen Do

“I went through some bad times, but in the end, what fun I had.”
― Maddie Please, Old Friends Reunited

“While we had to struggle into tight garments, tucking in flab and wondering if the whole garment had shrunk since we last put it on.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Hen Do

“We were born to be real, not perfect,”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Hen Do

“of fluff and dust floated gently onto their preferred location of the floor and bookcases again. Oh, for heaven’s sake. Better add new vacuum cleaner to the list. I gave a resigned sigh, dropped the hoover hose onto the floor, opened the”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“Metaxa,”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Club

“Maybe that was the magic of social media, the feeling that you could reinvent your life for the benefit of strangers without actually doing anything?”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“I thought about this and realised that was actually all any of us wanted. For people to be kind to us and to each other. And kindness seemed in short supply these days.”
― Maddie Please, The Old Ducks' Hen Do

“Our relationship had been going wrong for years, as Paul gradually launched his campaign to wean Jenny away from her friends, her work and from me.”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly