Quotes from Adele Parks

Truth is a bit like depression. It creeps up on you. You don't notice it, you can keep denying it, but once it lands, it's indisputable

A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it

He knows a place. I like that. It's refreshing to meet a man who has ideas about what we should do and where we should

telling. I thought I knew this

Mr Elliott nodded sympathetically, leaned across the table and patted his client's hand. Gillian raised an eyebrow and wondered whether the man had slept through the #MeToo revolution.

How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?

I mean literally just heard

day; I sniff the air and can almost smell summer. I love spring, not in its own right, but because it's the predecessor to summer, my actual favourite season. I have learnt that anticipation is genuinely a gift. Hot days slow my blood and heal my bones.

couldn't quite exorcise

wearing dark blue trousers, so my shins quickly

There are lots of things that are tough about being a single parent. The emotional, physical, and financial strain of being entirely responsible for absolutely everything – around the clock, a relentless twenty-four/seven – takes its toll.

I mean, it's not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I'm feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties. Katherine

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room

If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?

I'm at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn't started.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.

Maybe, it was incredulity that two people could go through something together but still see it so differently.

Bloody biology curses women every time.

Even with millions you can't control time.

She's all science-y, which is cool, especially for a girl. It should not matter. But it does. Cuz we're not living in the future yet and people really do stereotype.

I think that's the hardest lesson I have had to learn as a parent; no matter how much I try, I am not able to guarantee my sons' happiness and success.