Izzy Bromley > Quotes

“We only get one life, and it’s better to spend it smiling than frowning. Not that that’s always easy. I know that as well as the next person. But I’d rather smile at what I’ve had and lost than be sad that it’s gone. Youth, health, husbands. All of them slip away eventually. We can’t stop that. I’m getting old, no matter what fancy face creams I use to try and delay it. And we can’t stop those we love leaving us too soon. But what we can do is make sure that we make the most of what we still have.”
― Izzy Bromley, The Coach Trip

“huff”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“We’ve all lost someone in our lives, or fear that we may soon. Having empathy for another person in that situation is part of what makes us human.”
― Izzy Bromley, The Coach Trip

“There’s an intimacy to opening your home up to other people, even if you know them well, so it’s no wonder I’m nervous.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“Don’t they say that we’re all just a couple of bad decisions away from catastrophe?”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“I flick through various screens but my heart isn’t really in it. Instead of being a passion project, it feels like another way to pass the time. But then, isn’t everything just a way to pass time to some extent?”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“We only get one life”
― Izzy Bromley, The Coach Trip

“There’s not enough looking out for the have-nots in this world. The old and the poor, we all get left out with the rubbish. No one’s interested in us.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“Mind you, most homeless people are too busy surviving to do you any harm.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“She sees things differently to me. Where I spy potential pitfalls, she sees only possibilities.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“You have become quite the addition to our little flock, Abigail,’ she says after a moment or two of silence. ‘We were close before, in our own way, but you have brought something quite unique with you. There’s a new sense of purpose which we lacked before. I, for one, am very grateful. And I feel it from the others too.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“I contemplate staying in bed all day, which almost feels like something I should be doing just to make a point, but I’m really not that person. I’m more your basic up-and-at-’em kind, whose default setting is doing not resting.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“This is something you can use. Your emotional response to the injustice can be harnessed to create great work in the future,’ she says.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“It’s like one of those awful apologies where the person doesn’t say that they’re sorry for what they’ve done but twists it round to say that they’re sorry you feel like you do.”
― Izzy Bromley, The Bed in the Shed

“Or, and this is even worse, they weren’t really my friends after all. I was part of the team but once I left, I lost my status. I became just someone they used to work with.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“five”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“Because if there’s one thing I know it’s that hiding from what scares you is never going to turn out well.”
― Izzy Bromley, The Coach Trip

“think women can be their own worst enemies sometimes. We take control because it’s the best way of getting everything done, and then we complain when no one helps.”
― Izzy Bromley, The Bed in the Shed

“And isn’t hindsight a smart-arse?”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five

“Just because other people have it tougher doesn’t make your problems any less valid.”
― Izzy Bromley, Table for Five