Maxine Morrey > Quotes

“You’ve got to be your own champion, not your own enemy.”
― Maxine Morrey, You've Got This

“Few things worth having come easy. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying for them.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“There are always more opportunities, duckie. Sometimes you just have to look in a different place.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Jed to be focused on his food – not a surprise. He’d always been a total foodie and it had occasionally been sickening to watch the stuff he could put away and still keep that body. A”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“And don’t forget. Opportunities are everywhere. You just have to look up and see them.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Sometimes life didn’t go the way you wanted it to, and you just had to accept it and not let it ruin any more of the time you’d been given on this earth.”
― Maxine Morrey, Living Your Best Life

“But none of them could help me walk again or get to the level of fitness I’ve got to without my input.”
― Maxine Morrey, My Year of Saying No

“That sometimes you need a second chance because you weren’t quite ready for the first one. Maybe we weren’t ready for our first chance. But I know I’m ready now.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“do”
― Maxine Morrey, Just Say Yes

“Just because someone can take care of themselves, doesn’t mean they always have to, that it’s against the rules to let others help you.”
― Maxine Morrey, Living Your Best Life

“Yeah, it seems rough now but every storm runs out of rain at some point. Something will come along that’s better than what you wanted before. But you have to be in a position to take advantage of it…’ He let the sentence drift off but I got his meaning.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“asked”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“Betty,”
― Maxine Morrey, Just Say Yes

“give you”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“What I thought I wanted and what I actually needed had been, I realised now, two very different things.”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“We spent so much money on things to help us calm down, gadgets, gyms, headphones, retreats. And yet one of the best methods was here, all around us. Even in a city like London. Nature was here. Waiting. Ready to help. You just had to notice it. As I left the churchyard and walked”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“liked plans, goals, timescales. That way I could see how far ahead or behind I was in my schedule for the life I had planned out. Except that hadn’t really worked. I was always behind, and every time I’d looked at my five, ten and fifteen year plan I had a burst of anxiety because I wasn’t on schedule and it had fuelled me into working even harder, taking on more, in the hope that this job or that contact would propel me into my neatly mapped out future. But it hadn’t.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Even when your life had been shattered, nature’s cycle continued and, at a time I found it hard to discern comfort in anything, I did find some sort of comfort in that. 2 Having overstuffed ourselves with takeaway, Felix, Poppy and I sprawled on the sofas in the lounge while my brother surfed through streaming channels to try to find a film we all wanted to watch.”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“tenterhooks,”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“multitude of sins, and loos that always made you consider just how much you actually needed a wee, had long since been transformed. Now it was a light, airy affair with oak-effect flooring and pale walls that sold gastro-style meals at the appropriately inflated price. We’d been meeting up here for years. As many of us as possible would make the regular meets, and in between there was a mix and match, depending on who was available. Once children popped onto the scene, it made it a little more difficult to schedule, so in the summer we often swapped the location to one of the parks so that the kids could come too. I loved that we’d all done our best”
― Maxine Morrey, Living Your Best Life

“Friends initially had called and sent cards but when they visited, or I forced myself to accept invitations, I could feel their discomfort as strongly as my own. They trod on eggshells, being sure not to mention anything they thought might cause upset. They didn’t know how to ‘be’ with me when all I’d really wanted was some sense of normality, whatever that was. They meant well, but none of us enjoyed the evenings, and I think they were relieved when I began to decline the invitations, and I was certainly relieved when they ceased to ask.”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“It’s always afterwards you think of all the things you wanted to talk about, or ask, isn’t it?’ ‘I think, a lot of the time, we assume we still have plenty of time to ask those questions.’ ‘That’s true. But we never really know how much time we have, do we?’ ‘No, we don’t,’ he said. ‘I guess that’s why, if we really want something, we just have to find a way of getting it, or at least of trying to get it. Then you’re never left with the what if.”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“I’d spent so long focusing on the end result, doing what others wanted, trying to fit into this perceived mould of what my life should be and look like, and what I should be and look like, that it was entirely possible I’d lost sight of what it was about my chosen career that actually brought me joy.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Henry bent over me and placed a gentle kiss on my forehead. Even in the low light of the room, when he pulled back, I could see tears shining in his eyes. Henry and I were close and I spent as much time as work would allow with him and his family, but he wasn’t the gushy type. He was sensible, reliable, dependable Henry and the expression on his face was one I’d never seen before. Apart from looking like he hadn’t slept in over a week, his eyes were filled with – what? Frankly, my brain felt a bit on the foggy side, but if I had to try and rootle out a name for it, I’d say it looked like relief. He reached out and pressed a button before focusing his attention fully back on my face.”
― Maxine Morrey, Things Are Looking Up

“Jack gave a shrug. ‘You knew what you needed. This place obviously felt right when you came here, so you did what you had to do. Other people may have our best interests at heart but, in the end, these important decisions have to be our own and we know what feels right.”
― Maxine Morrey, You Only Live Once

“later, his profile was up on the screen. ‘Ooh, he looks good!’ She scanned the screen. ‘Sounds good too. He’s going to be popular.’ ‘He could have said he was a pig farmer who lived in the sty and he’d still get dates. Look at him! I can’t compete with that.’ Tia gave me a sharp look. ‘Not that it’s all about the competition, obviously.’ The look remained”
― Maxine Morrey, Living Your Best Life