Emma Robinson > Quotes

“Gemma had the usual assurance of the know-it-alls who can’t understand that anyone else could have a perfectly nice life doing things slightly differently from them.”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“The ‘My Life Is Perfect – You Need To Do The Same’ evangelists. It wasn’t only their arrogance that bugged her, it was their incomprehension about how their comments made you feel.”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“Gemma lives around here,’ said Naomi. ‘Lucky woman.’ ‘Well, in Shoreham actually,”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“Wearing anything remotely clingy made her middle resemble cake mixture. To be fair, cake mixture was what it had seen most of in the last few months.”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“Once the baby was here, her body would return to normal and the rest of her life would follow. She’d be able to stay awake past 9 p.m., wear clothes that didn’t resemble camping equipment and be out and about researching nightlife for ‘Girl About Town’.”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“She didn’t feel like she’d done anything. She felt like it had been done to her.”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“When you’re a strong person, people just expect you to cope. When they have problems, you’re always there to support them. But somehow they don’t return the favour when you are the one who is struggling. When you need help or just someone to listen.”
― Emma Robinson, His First Wife's Secret

“There are other things that I wish we’d done differently. I wish we’d got round to the things we said we’d do. Those holidays we’d said we’d take when the girls were grown, the meals out we promised ourselves. We did none of it.’ ‘I know. I guess it always felt like there were other things that needed doing. Work or maintenance on the house.”
― Emma Robinson, We Both Have Secrets

“Antonia wheeled around. ‘Is she okay? What about me? I’m the wronged wife here!’ There was a pause. ‘To be fair to Naomi, you don’t seem to be looking for a shoulder to”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“She wasn’t one of those women who constantly shoved pictures of their child under your nose.”
― Emma Robinson, The Forgotten Wife

“Having met so young, they’d almost grown up together. But even so, they’d allowed themselves to get stuck in a rut.”
― Emma Robinson, We Both Have Secrets

“breaking some record for”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“There’s a time limit on being able to blame your parents.”
― Emma Robinson, My Silent Daughter

“for her first post-baby night out.”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“far”
― Emma Robinson, The Forgotten Wife

“what you permit, you promote.”
― Emma Robinson, My Stepmother's Secret

“All the stuff I thought I should do meant that we didn’t do the things we wanted to do.”
― Emma Robinson, We Both Have Secrets

“she”
― Emma Robinson, My Husband's Daughter

“cake you’d want, so I got a”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“She can still be your best friend, sweetie. All you need to do is paint yourself a different picture.”
― Emma Robinson, My Silent Daughter

“but she got all hippy”
― Emma Robinson, The Undercover Mother

“When Lara had been at school, she’d always been the quiet, studious one, but when she’d got to university, she had reinvented herself as a confident party girl.”
― Emma Robinson, The Forgotten Wife