“It turned out that if you saw the same person with some degree of regularity, then the conversation was immediately pleasant and comfortable-you could pick up where you left off, as it were, rather than having to start afresh each time.”ġ1. “I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.”ġ0. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”ĩ. “These days, loneliness is the new cancer-a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. I can only assume they’ve led very sheltered lives.”Ĩ.

“It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual. You can make anything happen, anything at all, inside a daydream.”ħ. I’ve found this to be a very effective way of passing the time you take a situation or a person and start to imagine nice things that might happen. “It is incomprehensible to me now that I could ever have thought that anyone would love this ambulant bag of blood and bones.”Ħ. I had decided, years ago, that if the choice was between that or flying solo, then I’d fly solo. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don’t find very funny, do things they don’t particularly want to, with people whose company they don’t particularly enjoy. “But, by careful observation from the sidelines, I’d worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. “I don’t want to accept a drink from you, because then I would be obliged to purchase one for you in return, and I’m afraid I’m simply not interested in spending two drinks’ worth of time with you.”Ĥ.

“You can’t have too much dog in a book.”ģ.

Eleanor is completely fine