Susie Tate > Quotes

“Love is blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision,”
― Susie Tate, Sticks and Stones

“Anger begins with madness and ends with regret”
― Susie Tate, Sticks and Stones

“Don’t ever let someone who does not know your value dictate your worth,’ Goodie told her. ‘You and your daughter are worth ten of him.”
― Susie Tate, Goodnight

“This was how I won. Living this unperfect life surrounded by love was my victory.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“Yaz, why do I have a stone for recharging vaginas in my house?” Max asked, which I thought was a reasonable question.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“Don't listen to him. The last thing you want to be is normal.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“You only love me if it serves your purposes – if I’m helping your family, if I keep my unpopular opinions to myself. Your love is conditional. I’ve had limits and conditions put on love my whole life and I’ve had enough of it. I’d rather be alone.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“Somehow if I built you your perfect room, if I made this house somewhere you'd want to be, then maybe, maybe you'd want to be here. With me.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“Storytellers change the world, love,” he’d said. “There’s nothing as powerful as a good story told well.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“So I just re-read them whilst I read other books, sort of like literary palate cleansers.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“Your cat is strangely bossy, and you’re weirdly deferential.”
― Susie Tate, Unwanted

“As his eyes travelled back to the new guy’s face, he did a double take. There was lipstick smeared all over his mouth. Katie hadn’t been wearing any lipstick, had she?”
― Susie Tate, Beyond Repair

“Mum,” she snapped, “I’ve got to go.” “Oh! Of course, go, go. Sweets, I’m not sure that your pancakes are the best choice to make him for breakfast. Better maybe to ease him into your cooking skills. Some toast might be–”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“distain”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“He,” the little girl said, pointing in Jamie’s face and scrunching her nose, “stepped on Alan with his humongous feet.” Libby’s gaze dropped down to a now loosely held Alan, then moved up to Jamie’s face, and if anything she grew even paler. “She kicked me,” was all Jamie could think to say as he straightened up.”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“Life is ten per cent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. Don’t waste yours looking back for what you’ve lost. Move on. Life isn’t meant to be lived backwards.”
― Susie Tate, Anything But Easy

“Lottie and Ollie were two of my favourite people. Just because I couldn’t express emotion in the normal way, didn’t mean I didn’t feel it. If anything, I felt too much, and I’d been devastated by their unhappiness, and my inability to do anything helpful to heal the rift.”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“You know that I eat your custard creams,” I whispered, mortified. He chuckled. “Lottie, you eat about three packets a week. Who do you think makes sure there’s a steady supply?”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“If I ask you to do something for me will you do it?’ She frowned. ‘Well, I’d have to know what this mysterious “something” was, wouldn’t I? I mean, if it was just, “Pass me one of those Wagon Wheels,” you know the ones that you’ve got stashed in the door shelf here – I’m impressed by the way, I had you down as more of a spinach-protein shake kind of a guy – then okay. But if it’s something of a more morally dubious nature – say, “Make a snuff film graphically depicting the gruesome deaths of two enraged male hedgehogs allowed to tear each other apart in a territorial dispute over a Tangle Teaser liberally doused with female hedgehog pheromones,” or, “Vote UKIP in the upcoming by-election” – then no, I wouldn’t be on board.’ He stared at her for a moment, a heavy feeling settling in his chest as he realized just how much she meant to him, how far he would be willing to go to keep her from any form of pain.”
― Susie Tate, Beyond Repair

“Rosie burrowed further into Beauty’s fur, not saying a word. (To be honest Libby was a little relieved; Shy Rosie was better than Kicking Random People in the Shins Rosie.)”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“When I did place my hand in his and his strong fingers closed over mine, I had the weirdest feeling. The only way I can describe it is that at that moment, with my hand in his, I felt as if everything was right.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“It can feel slightly scary to trust people, Felix. But if you won't take the risk, you'll never be truly happy. You have to live life with an open heart.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“I’d never realised before how many of the trappings of femininity make you weak. High heels mean you can’t run as fast, long hair makes you vulnerable to being grabbed, tight skirts are less easy to manoeuvre in. It’s like we’re physically weaker anyway, but then, just for good measure, society decides we need to be hindered even further.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“Katie’s idea of car maintenance and safety was a joke, he could see the defeated look on her face and the tense hunch of her small shoulders, and a wave of annoyance stole over him. It was okay for him to lecture her, but he felt strangely protective when somebody else decided to do it.”
― Susie Tate, Beyond Repair

“So the past week has been about pity has it?” he asked her, and she blinked. “Uh …” “I felt sorry for you and Rosie, so I invited your whole family to stay at my house. Allowed your mother to traumatise my dog. Have a family of woodlice living in one of my houseplants, because I felt bad?” “Uh… yes?”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“hollow feeling Millie had endured to some extent her whole life was gradually expanding. She felt like emptiness was slowly pulling her under,”
― Susie Tate, Limits

“With real strength comes the integrity not to use physicality to control others, or emotional abuse to chip someone down to a shadow of their former self. Real strength means helping to build someone up so that they can be a real partner, an equal.”
― Susie Tate, Unperfect

“You never told me you had a daughter.” “Well, I did try a couple of times, but you didn’t–” “I cut you off.” Jamie ran his fingers through his hair, his mind going over the past two weeks and both of the times she had tried to explain, only to have him close the conversation down. Pav’s words came back to haunt him as he took in the two females huddled in a soggy-looking mess on the chair: Everyone’s fighting their own unique war, man.”
― Susie Tate, Beg, Borrow or Steal

“Anger begins with madness and ends with regret.”
― Susie Tate, Sticks and Stones

“Model turned actress Lydia Swanson was seen at the premier of her new film yesterday on the arm of a former member of her security team, ex-SAS war hero Samuel Clifton.”
― Susie Tate, Beyond Repair