Adele Parks > Quotes

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”
― Adele Parks, Young Wives' Tales

“I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.”
― Adele Parks, About Last Night

“There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room”
― Adele Parks, Men I've Loved Before

“If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?”
― Adele Parks, Men I've Loved Before

“I think that’s the hardest lesson I have had to learn as a parent; no matter how much I try, I am not able to guarantee my sons’ happiness and success.”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“I’m at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn’t started.”
― Adele Parks, I Invited Her In

“Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.”
― Adele Parks

“She's all science-y, which is cool, especially for a girl. It should not matter. But it does. Cuz we're not living in the future yet and people really do stereotype.”
― Adele Parks, Just My Luck

“Even with millions you can't control time.”
― Adele Parks, Just My Luck

“After you’ve lost someone you never look at the world in the same way again, everything is unsure.”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“I gave each boyfriend the part of me I knew they would find palatable, but I never gave the whole package.”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“Maybe, it was incredulity that two people could go through something together but still see it so differently.”
― Adele Parks, I Invited Her In

“I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel”
― Adele Parks

“Bloody biology curses women every time.”
― Adele Parks, Just My Luck

“the distinct sound of the”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“But I do remember how I felt when he said I was pretty. I was disappointed. I felt my lack. I wanted to be beautiful. Beautiful suggests gravitas, importance. Pretty is lightweight and suggests ‘somewhat’. I needed him to think of me as beautiful. I felt challenged, as though he had thrown down a gauntlet.”
― Adele Parks, One Last Secret

“Yesterday’s triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.”
― Adele Parks, The Stranger In My Home

“Culinary skills don’t rule out being a total bitch.”
― Adele Parks, Two Dead Wives

“It turns out we were just a couple of strangers exchanging views of school timetables, what we should eat for dinner,’ he adds bitterly.”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“She had a grim power about her; despite being only five foot four, she had always seemed threatening, evil.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“I mean literally just heard,”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“think that’s the hardest lesson I have had to learn as a parent; no matter how much I try, I am not able to guarantee my sons’ happiness and success.”
― Adele Parks, Both of You

“shrug. I don’t feel that. I’d settle for being ignored, left alone, unjudged. Unharried. I just want to live my life. I don’t need anyone to understand it. ‘Do you think? It strikes me as the ultimate in self-absorption, hoping for understanding from others to give meaning to your life. Get over yourself, I say.”
― Adele Parks, One Last Secret

“Hideously joyful.”
― Adele Parks, Our Beautiful Mess

“telling. I thought I knew this”
― Adele Parks, The Stranger In My Home

“years of thinking of my body as nothing more than an efficient vessel to get me from A to B, I now think of it as something much more lascivious and decadent. Something sexy and sexed up. I glow with the thought of pleasing and being pleasured.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“on the whole, this attitude has served him well. He is sure he’s doing the right thing, no matter what the lawyers advise, no matter what the law dictates.”
― Adele Parks, Just Between Us

“her. He made jokes during dentist appointments”
― Adele Parks, Just Between Us

“I’ve always thought of it as restful, wholesome, open. Now the endless glass windows do not create a sense of opportunity and space, but instead make me feel vulnerable, exposed, like an insect under a microscope.”
― Adele Parks, First Wife’s Shadow

“day; I sniff the air and can almost smell summer. I love spring, not in its own right, but because it’s the predecessor to summer, my actual favourite season. I have learnt that anticipation is genuinely a gift. Hot days slow my blood and heal my bones.”
― Adele Parks, One Last Secret