Elizabeth Noble

“mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above…

— Elizabeth Noble

“You've got the wrong criteria." Huh?" You need to make more intellectual decisions, fewer emotional ones..." 'Decisions' came out a bit slurred.…

— Elizabeth Noble

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and,…

— Elizabeth Noble

“You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest…

— Elizabeth Noble

“ed. now. picking at the scab that was starting to heal over. why did guys do that? too little too late?”

— Elizabeth Noble

“please don't carry my love for you with you forever. but don't let that be all. our capacity to love is vast…

— Elizabeth Noble

“when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it…

— Elizabeth Noble

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you…

— Elizabeth Noble

“the big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women. ”

— Elizabeth Noble

“she was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect. and that's okay”

— Elizabeth Noble

“I don't remember why it all went so wrong. I mean, I do remember. I remember what i did. I just don't…

— Elizabeth Noble

“I can't believe you came all this way, No one ever did anything like that for me before.' His eyes bored into…

— Elizabeth Noble

“life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah…

— Elizabeth Noble

“what was she like? she loved him, really loved him then, for an instant. this, this was easier. ”

— Elizabeth Noble

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its…

— Elizabeth Noble

“all this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy,…

— Elizabeth Noble

“you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her…

— Elizabeth Noble

“she loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells…

— Elizabeth Noble

“There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness…

— Elizabeth Noble

“i want to live. simple as that. we all do, don't we?”

— Elizabeth Noble

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

— Elizabeth Noble

“Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they…

— Elizabeth Noble

“but i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in…

— Elizabeth Noble

Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To…

— Elizabeth Noble

“I mean, I’ve always loved her, we’ve been best mates for years. When I started this thing, I thought that maybe, maybe…

— Elizabeth Noble