Cressida Mclaughlin Quotes

“Everyone had some element of their past nipping at their heels. Whether it was good, bad or indifferent, you couldn’t just pretend you were born fresh every morning, a grown adult, and nothing had shaped you into the person you were.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation

“She’s busy enough with her own life, as you can imagine. She doesn’t need to take on my problems too, which she would if I let her. But we’re both adults. We’re siblings, but we lead very different lives.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation

“Sundays are for worshipping your own space, giving yourself time to do nothing.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation

“You fell for him, my darling. It’s all over your face, thick in your words. You’re always good at the stories, always giving them to me with so much detail and humour and romance, but this one is different. This one has a little more heart in it: more authenticity.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation

“With your friends, with people who matter, you don’t lie.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation

“Once again, she had been held back by her fears: by that one, defining event sixteen years ago and all its ripples and repercussions. And now, not only was it stopping her from going wherever she wanted, spreading her wings as much as she craved, it had lost her the one man she’d felt like she could love.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation

“I have to give him time to think about it, to hopefully realize that, even though it’s all happened so quickly, and that it’s not going to be easy, that it’s worth taking a chance on.”
― Cressida McLaughlin, The Staycation