Kristen Bailey > Quotes

“Maybe the future is overrated. There’s something special about living in the now, in perfect smaller moments with someone who makes you laugh so hard your face hurts, for taking each beautifully sunny day as it comes.”
― Kristen Bailey, Hot to Go

“That was wrong of Granny. Daddy is not a melon.’ Their little eyes peer at me through the mirror. I did the right thing there. But their father is the worst sort of lying evil shitmelon there is.”
― Kristen Bailey, Can I Give My Husband Back?

“Never cry over a man, eat excellent cake instead.”
― Kristen Bailey, Five Gold Rings

“Yes”
― Kristen Bailey, We Three Kings

“Whatever them bitches are saying about you, no will remember in a month’s time…”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?

“you have to go through some of this shite to understand what you deserve. It’s what these years are for.”
― Kristen Bailey, Great Sexpectations

“though I’m debating to what extent she knows how”
― Kristen Bailey, Has Anyone Seen My Sex Life?

“You’re in the East Wing,’ Carmel said. Their house has wings. Do you know what I own that has wings? Sanitary towels.”
― Kristen Bailey, We Three Kings

“But teenagers are unpredictable and unforgiving beasts. It’s not even like walking into a lion’s den. It’s like walking into a room of very unimpressed cats who may attack”
― Kristen Bailey, Hot to Go

“Nirvana”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?

“It’s a parking thing… Who is that man?’ I ask. Iris peers over to inspect. ‘He’s Giles’ dad.’ ‘Do we like Giles?’ ‘Not unless we like boys who pee down slides. He stood at the top, peed down it like a waterfall. The boy is feral,’ Iris says, strong judgement in her tones.”
― Kristen Bailey, Can I Give My Husband Back?

“The best gifts are the ones where someone’s really thought about what you like,”
― Kristen Bailey, Five Gold Rings

“you go down to their level, you silence the bitch and then you rise up again like the phoenix you are. It’s what we Callaghan women do.”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?

“teenagers are unpredictable and unforgiving beasts. It’s not even like walking into a lion’s den. It’s like walking into a room of very unimpressed cats who may attack, may engage with you but most likely will sit there and think you’re not all that.”
― Kristen Bailey, Hot to Go

“We’re supposed to have our hearts broken so that they can mend and are thus stronger from the experience. We learn the different ways to be loved, what we really deserve in life, what makes us better people.”
― Kristen Bailey, Great Sexpectations

“There was this three-year-old today who saw a gorilla and he lost his shit. My wish is to always be that excited about life.”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?

“Lily seems to have spelt her name with her tongue which, to me, is a sign of academic progress.”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?

“I’m sorry that didn’t work out, love. I liked him. Kindness in his eyes.”
― Kristen Bailey, Great Sexpectations

“being a part”
― Kristen Bailey, Can I Give My Husband Back?

“Friendship is a very strange thing like that. Sometimes we have friends we think will last a lifetime and sometimes it just doesn’t work. People grow, they move away, they change. It’s OK to mourn them, to hurt.”
― Kristen Bailey, Great Sexpectations

“Ro once shagged a Latvian bloke who was”
― Kristen Bailey, Has Anyone Seen My Sex Life?

“Shouldn’t you be out there welcoming them all?’ I ask him. ‘Yeah”
― Kristen Bailey, Big Nick Energy

“always like this house. Some would say messy, but to me it shows signs of life, fun, family.”
― Kristen Bailey, We Three Kings

“Whatever them bitches are saying about you, no will remember in a month’s time…’ Carrie seems to have cracked a joke and Orlagh cackles, waving an orange colouring pencil around.”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?

“that in running away from my past”
― Kristen Bailey, Hot to Go

“The day you hear your partner through the bathroom door is the day when the love has crossed a threshold into forever and more.”
― Kristen Bailey, Has Anyone Seen My Sex Life?

“Love is shit like that. How it can spark the whole spectrum of emotion in a second, how it has such tremendous range.”
― Kristen Bailey, How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart?