Emma Thompson

"The one thing you’ve got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time."

- Emma Thompson

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."

- Emma Thompson

"We tried to have another child, it didn’t work and I went into a deep clinical depression. It’s only now that I no longer count other people’s children or judge myself harshly for not providing my daughter with a sibling."

- Emma Thompson

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times."

- Emma Thompson

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."

- Emma Thompson

"Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear."

- Emma Thompson