"Make things worth sharing."

“How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”

“I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours kids too and I loved Bros. God, I had terrible music taste. I’m getting a taste of my own medicine now, as my daughter’s been asking for some quite scary albums.”

Source : "Donna Air: ‘Since my split, I've proved I'm a good single mum'". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 15, 2008.

“I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.”

“I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.”

“They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!”

Source : Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.257, Marshall Cavendish

“Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.”

“When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.”

“Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.”