Rebecca

“He'll stand up for you and protect you and kill dragons for you, but he won't always know that sometimes, he's the dragon”
― Jodi Taylor, The Nothing Girl

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“His problem is that he thinks he’s not measuring up to me. What he doesn’t see is that he doesn’t have to.”
― Jodi Taylor, An Argumentation of Historians

“His mother informed us that she had assumed his wife would be buying his advent calendars for him, now he was married, which came as something of a surprise to me, as I did not remember anything in our wedding vows about ‘To Be Your Bloody Mother From This Day Forth …’ I bought him a calendar the next year as a joke, but he didn’t seem to realise the joke part, going so far as to tell me that for future reference, he actually preferred a Thornton’s calendar to a Dairy Milk one, but he appreciated the thought. And so I continue to buy my forty-year-old husband an advent calendar every year, because apparently I am his mum now, and he is a spoilt child.”
― Gill Sims, Why Mummy Drinks