Lucy Diamond > Quotes

“Sometimes you’ve just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.”
― Lucy Diamond, Summer With My Sister

“Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.”
― Lucy Diamond, Sweet Temptation

“The thing about settling down that freaks me out is that you're being honest, You're saying, this is me. This is what I can do. This is it.”
― Lucy Diamond, One Night in Italy

“Whereas while you're travelling, nobody really knows. While you're travelling you still have the potential to do anything, be anything. It's only when you stop and actually try to do those things that you discover your own capabilities, I guess.”
― Lucy Diamond, One Night in Italy

“She was not a shy person, Georgie, but chatting to friendly baristas in cafés when she ventured out for a coffee or sandwich had so far been the extent of her socializing here in”
― Lucy Diamond, The House of New Beginnings

“It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.”
― Lucy Diamond, Sweet Temptation

“It was a view I never tired of, especially”
― Lucy Diamond, A Baby at the Beach Café

“Everything had come easily to her. her whole life: This was the only thing that remained resolutely beyond her control.”
― Lucy Diamond, The Year of Taking Chances

“..but lots of women have a soft spot for their first loves, remember.”
― Lucy Diamond, Me and Mr Jones

“It was all very well being a can-do independent twenty-first-century woman, but sometimes she just wished her dad was still around to take care of stuff like this.”
― Lucy Diamond, The Year of Taking Chances

“Rachel and Becca aren’t real sisters, or so they say. They are stepsisters, living far apart, with little in common. Rachel is the successful one: happily married with three children and a big house, plus an impressive career. Artistic Becca, meanwhile, lurches from one dead-end job to another, shares a titchy flat and has given up on love”
― Lucy Diamond, A Baby at the Beach Café

“she thought darkly, sploshing cold Sauvignon Blanc into two glasses and knocking back half of”
― Lucy Diamond, Something to Tell You

“I was willing to take being second best if it meant I could still . . . you know. Be with him.”
― Lucy Diamond, Summer at Shell Cottage

“else would I be hiding”
― Lucy Diamond, The Beach Café

“It was getting harder to fake the smile, harder to make the effort.”
― Lucy Diamond, Summer With My Sister

“Please God, Let that be true. We all need to feel some happiness again soon.”
― Lucy Diamond, Me and Mr Jones

“How was it possible that you could be in a room full of loud, jolly people and yet feel so alone?”
― Lucy Diamond, Anything Could Happen

“but the starting point should be about you feeling great with him.”
― Lucy Diamond, Anything Could Happen

“But being sorry doesn’t change anything, does it?”
― Lucy Diamond, Anything Could Happen

“the green numerals of Jo’s bedside clock telling her that it was 3.08: insomniacs’ hour.”
― Lucy Diamond, The House of New Beginnings

“We’ll get there. Think of this as an adventure, not a problem.”
― Lucy Diamond, Summer at Shell Cottage

“But she knew what he meant: that this had none of the hallmarks of random casual encounter'. There was no doubt in her mind that tonight was definitely the start of something.”
― Lucy Diamond, Anything Could Happen

“red. It”
― Lucy Diamond, Anything Could Happen

“People who switch their niceness on and off are not to be trusted.”
― Lucy Diamond, One Night in Italy