Lily

“Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman

“So - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.”
― Neil Gaiman

“But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”
― David Nicholls, One Day