“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. —F. Scott Fitzgerald” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“Really, I’ve never understood why we haven’t thought of an English word for Schadenfreude.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“The way she said his name, the tenderness in those two words, the loss, told me that it was Charlie who she mourned above… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness, and all, and not forensically examined its faults.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“the only life is a shadowy turbulence at the periphery of my vision, a fox perhaps,” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“long odds don’t always make any difference at all. Somebody always makes up that small percentage of people to whom unlikely or desperate things… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“Outside, I take in the fact that the night is deeply dusky and warm, and that feels like a balm after the cold air inside. I notice a strong smell from the glowing white roses that hang over the churchyard gate and the dark fluttering of bats that swarm from a high corner of the church tower. Around us, as… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share
“it’s to do with not being able to let go of what Richard and I had, the perfect idea of us, even though our… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness and all, and not forensically examined its faults. Those faults were largely in the eyes of a critical and sharp-edged society anyhow, and I had learned to recognize them by osmosis, by following the herd. I had not yet learned to use my intelligence, or to trust in my… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share
“At home, in the empty flat, I wish more than anything that I had somebody who would come home to me tonight, somebody I… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“limit my answer because my trust in others has been eroded by what happened; of course it has. Within many of my relationships doubt… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“What I know now is that even after the divorce I should simply have been grateful for what I had. I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness, and all, and not forensically examined its faults. Those faults were largely in the eyes of a critical and sharp-edged society anyhow, and I had learned to recognize them… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share
“Our friendship didn’t survive. Some things are too big for other people to bear.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
