Jen Robinson

“Ah, the frazzling ordeal of being known.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared