Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series

Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours.

Your generation don’t want to study a subject, you just want to study yourselves.’

Then she thought about an American author who had written that loneliness is like starvation, you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

All winter had to do was roll in with a bit of freezing weather and take all the credit, like a man who’s spent twenty minutes next to a barbecue but has never served a full meal in his life.

‘He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now,’ she said to the other women in the closet.

He wasn’t at all difficult to replace, so he went home and the business carried on existing.

We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of ‘Don’t Forget!’s and ‘Remember!’s over us.

‘Boats that stay in the harbour are safe, sweetheart, but that’s not what boats were built for.’

They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of