Abigail Tarttelin Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
October 13, 1987

Abigail Jane Kathryn Tarttelin is an English novelist who began her career as an actress. Her second book, Golden Boy, was described as a "dazzling debut" by Oprah's Book Club.Published in 2013, the book has rapidly been translated into numerous languages and saw the author listed amongst the Evening Standard's "25 people under 25".

Sometimes things aren't what you think they are, and even when things seem really bad, it can work out.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Work
- Bad
- Things
It always seems strange to me how little people notice about each other’s lives.

Abigail Tarttelin
- People
- Lives
- Notice

A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing we're born with, it's something that comes about.

Abigail Tarttelin
Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Thought
- Child
- Violating
I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Children
- Adults
- Older
Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Life
- Good
- Tried
The thing is, sometimes you have to be brave and say who you are and how you feel. Even if you don’t know how you’re going to do it. You just have to take a deep breath, and decide to start.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Start
- Brave
- To Do
In the end, how is anyone any different from a 'normal' person? If you love someone, you love them. It doesn't matter where they came from or if they're a boy or a girl, or if you fight, or if they're weird, or if they find it difficult to communicate with you; you just fucking love them.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Love
- Girl
- Person

It is obvious, by the sounds of the dizzy, hysterical laughter that you start to exhale when you’re an adult and you have very few friends and only rarely have fun, that they are caught in a bubble of their own awesomeness and won’t be leaving the living room any time soon.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Fun
- Adult
- Exhale
It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Abigail Tarttelin
- Know
- Strength
- Accept