Best 9 quotes of Joanna Cannon on MyQuotes

And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

But sometimes life takes you along a path you only intended to glance down on your way to somewhere else, and when you look back, you realise the past wasn’t the straight line you thought it might be. If you’re lucky, you eventually move forward, but most of us cross from side to side, tripping up over our second thoughts as we walk through life.

Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distracted himself so much, he found himself drowning in distractions, and all the little details in the world seemed to join up together in his head and make a whole new problem to worry about.

I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complain very quietly to yourself about its ordinariness. You might with for something more interesting to happen, something to back of your routine, and just when you think you can't bear the monotony any longer, something comes along that shatters your life to such degree. you with with every cell in your body that your day hadn't become so unordinary.

Perhaps there are times when your life is so unbearably miserable, and yet the only part of you that can run away from it and leave is your mind.

The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life.

You can spot someone you know, even in a strange place or in a crowd of people. Theres something about a person that fits into your eyes.

You've got to find forgiveness, Florence," said Elsie. "You find it so easily in other people, why do you struggle so much to find it in yourself?" "I'm a bad person. I'm flawed. Damaged." "Of course you are." I looked at him. "We all are. Every one of us is damaged. We need the faults, the breaks, the fracture lines." "We do?" I said. 'Of course we do. However else would all the light get in?" I could see Elsie smiling at us. "You can't define yourself by a single moment." Jack held my hand very tightly. I could feel him shaking. "That moment doesn't make you who you are." "Then what does?" I said. "Oh, Florence. Everything else," he said. "Everything else.