Quotes by Sue Perkins

Frightfully pale and perpetually odd

Sometimes we dont want to be tethered to yesterday. Its nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe its so we have the chance to invent, or at least include, some magic in our yesterdays, surely the consolation of getting older, of moving away from youth, is that we can shape our past to our fantasies. So, even if the present isnt going the way we want it, we can stand and remember our earlier selves as exciting and funny and daring