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“There have been a few moments like that on my journey - times when I've wondered if God is telling me to get off this road and embrace a different life. But then I remember that I don't believe in God and that if he does exist, then he gave me this life to begin with. What would he know?”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“In life my mother had ably shielded me from rejection, from the callous and cold detachment of this man. And I had been safe with her warmth to sorround me. But in dying, she coukd not absorb this hurt for me anymore.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“That was it. The bracket of her bent leg against the stones. The way her mouth angled around the cigar in a grimace that was almost a smile. The sight of a woman in a well-tailored jacket and trousers. Unexpected, unimagined. A prickling sensation. A stomach-dropping, blood-fizzing, breath-stopping, knotted lurch-and-swoop that I recognized, by then, as the first faltering step towards falling in love.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“Sometimes he's just a comfort blanket I take for granted. But he's also the only person I know who could break my heart. I find it all confusing really, always pushing him away and pulling him towards me.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family