Barbara Copperthwaite > Quotes

“A lifetime can flash by in a moment. A moment can last a lifetime.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, Her Last Secret

“Whatever it takes to make her happy, I’ll do. We’ll write a bucket list together, and if I don’t have enough money myself to pay for everything she wants to do, I’ll start fundraising if needs be to make it come true. It is the very, very least I can do. My penance seems minuscule in comparison to my crime.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Some people might think I’m mad talking out loud to my dogs, but who cares? Their tails wag in unison as if they understand every word.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster

“someone”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster

“It had been so natural, so right, that it hadn’t seemed a big deal. They were bonded for ever, thanks to those troublemakers.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, Her Last Secret

“This started as little white lies. Then the white turned to a black blight that blotted out everything, running out of control.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Fight for what you want, because no one is simply going to hand it over because you’re a good girl who plays by the rules. If you’re not doing something every day that you’d be proud to put on your gravestone, then you’re not living right.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Writer's block doesn't really come from lack of ideas, I believe; it comes more from fear. Fear of the blank document, fear of failure...fear that what you write will be awful!
So the only way past it is to make myself get on with it. Sit in front of my computer and type, something, anything, even if it is simply writing down my feelings at that moment, or describing the weather. I start with something simple, and before I know it the words will flow again.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together,” that’s what she said, and it’s always stuck with me.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster

“had been so natural, so right, that it hadn’t seemed a big deal. They were bonded for ever, thanks to those troublemakers.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, Her Last Secret

“I assume you’ve been with Harry, despite our asking you not to see him.’ ‘Ten out of ten, Sherlock.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, Her Last Secret

“We were young in the days when people weren’t photographed constantly from every angle, when each one was a precious memory to be treasured”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster

“Above, chiffon clouds easily overtake me as they race one another in a cerulean sky.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Even though our experiences were so different, at the root of our issues were similar emotions: fear, anger, difficulty in coping, the urge to pretend to be strong as we fell apart. Dealing with the change in the way people reacted to us. The sense that our lives were split into Before and After.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“I love exploring emotions so much, and discovering through my story lines what makes ordinary people do extraordinary things, and how far someone can be pushed before they bend and break.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite

“I am a Russian doll of secrets, so many cradled one inside the other, all looking like me but diminishing until what is left is so tiny I fear I’m disappearing.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“I mean, students back then were scruffy, weren’t they?”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster

“It’s my philosophy for life: be more dog. Right, I don’t worry about the past or the future, just live in the moment, like pooches do. Even if a dog loses its leg, it just runs on three legs rather than crying about what it’s lost. What’s the point of worrying about things you can’t control?”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Being forced into company has taken some adjustment, but I’m starting to enjoy it.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster

“After losing Elise and Edward I’d felt a painful emptiness at first. But then something worse had happened: all the love that should have been poured into them had nowhere to go. It filled me up until I felt like an overinflated balloon ready to pop with a bang.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“some of the biggest lies people tell are to themselves”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“And checked her phone every now and again.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, Her Last Secret

“when we need people that we’re most likely to isolate ourselves.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“But I also know from bitter experience that sometimes it’s when we need people that we’re most likely to isolate ourselves.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“You’re joking. I’m a single mum, love, I’m permanently boracic.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, Her Last Secret