Fiona Gibson > Quotes

“We only have one life to live and everyone owes it to themselves to squeeze the maximum fun and joy out of it. Once your one life is gone, it’s gone.”
― Fiona Gibson, 'Tis the Damn Season

“I wonder now if, as well as those millions of scent receptors, dogs also have the ability to love a whole bunch of people unconditionally, with no limits on numbers.”
― Fiona Gibson, The Dog Share

“Spike saves the day!’ Spike announces, brandishing a bottle of red wine like a trophy. ‘Where d’you find that?’ Hannah asks. ‘Ah, well …’ He taps the side of his nose. ‘It was hiding at the back of your cupboard behind Lou’s bird food cereal.’ ‘Spike, you can’t drink that!’ Lou shrieks from the doorway. ‘Why not?’ He grips the bottle to his chest as if someone might try to wrestle it from him. ‘My parents gave it to me the day I left home. It’s to stay unopened for fifteen years – that’s why it was hidden – and then it’ll be worth a fortune.’ ‘Fifteen years?’ Spike looks bereft. ‘How can anyone be expected to wait that long for a drink?”
― Fiona Gibson, The Great Escape

“Although Morgan has been seeing Jenna for nearly a year, I’m still unsure of the etiquette where her underwear is concerned. Should I pick it up delicately – with eyebrow tweezers, perhaps – and seal it in a clear plastic bag, like evidence from a crime scene? Tentatively, as if it might snap at my ankle, I nudge it into the corner of the bathroom with the toe of my shoe”
― Fiona Gibson, The Woman Who Upped and Left

“on the living room floor. She’s”
― Fiona Gibson, The Great Escape

“The thing is, I decide, it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s a good idea to fall in love with someone. You just do.”
― Fiona Gibson, The Man I Met on Holiday

“with a spoon in his hand, and when the spoon clanged”
― Fiona Gibson, The Mum Who Got Her Life Back

“and more amenable. Perhaps he’s”
― Fiona Gibson, The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything

“their world, the more they pushed me away. Yet here in this cosy shop,”
― Fiona Gibson, The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything

“Bet she still lives with her mum and dad and has piles of teddies on her bed...”
― Fiona Gibson, The Woman Who Upped and Left

“Bet there’s a pervy old man in there, masturbating in a filthy string vest.”
― Fiona Gibson, The Woman Who Got Her Spark Back

“sat”
― Fiona Gibson, The Mum Who’d Had Enough

“Kids need you. They might be unfeeling and selfish and make you crave strong drink, in huge quantities, but they don’t do it on purpose. Once,”
― Fiona Gibson, As Good As It Gets?

“It’s always amused Celia to imagine the moment when he decided to rename himself after a spherical chocolate truffle, Lindor-von-whatever-the-heck-he’s-called,”
― Fiona Gibson, The Woman Who Got Her Spark Back

“Then I go over to attend to my client whose fine hair clings to her scalp. ‘Now,’ she says, prodding a picture in the magazine. ‘I was thinking of something like this. A big, glamorous Catherine Zeta-Jones kinda thing. That all right with you?”
― Fiona Gibson, Mum On The Run