Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

- Lynn Coady

No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.

- Lynn Coady

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

- Lynn Coady

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

- Lynn Coady

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

- Lynn Coady

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

- Lynn Coady

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

- Lynn Coady

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

- Lynn Coady

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

- Lynn Coady

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

- Lynn Coady