Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

He can't fall down anymore because he's already on the floor.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

A big hit is all part of the game. If you want to make a lot of big hits, you forget about the one you just made and move onto the next one.