“Instead, I count my blessings every day for my blemished, damaged family, which is full of love, and that is fine, and that is all we need and all Ben needs to know.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“proclivity for drink. It’s an open secret in the family. His question gets Maria” — 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… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“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… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“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… — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“Our friendship didn’t survive. Some things are too big for other people to bear.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
