“Who's St Nicholas? I don't want him, I want Father Christmas!”

“I think,' Stephen said, 'the worst thing about breaking up with someone who doesn't love you any more is that they aren't sad.”

“Lydia had met Stephen on a breast cancer charity fun run. She hadn't wanted to go on a fun run, because as far as Lydia was concerned, the words 'fun' and 'run' never, ever belonged in the same sentence.”

“David, do you think if I had just evacuated several litres of amniotic fluid under the table I wouldn't mention it?”

“It had by no means been the first time in her life that a man had finished with her, but it was the first time ever that he'd moved house and left the country to do it.”

“You are so...' Will broke away, his rare unbridled smile, as he gazed at her, utterly charming. '...dressed.”

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story that leads to the outcome they want.”