Allison Pearson Quotes

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

Can't is for pussies.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.