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I am just a man from the Midlands who she would probably never be friends with, being rude about her sister.
that “people break up all the time” is a sentiment that only comforts the person ending the relationship.
something about hope and youth and what it is to know you have things ahead of you that are new.
refrain from the Full English and instead order fried eggs on toast with a side of sausage, bacon, beans and mushrooms. I
“I’d like to be single,” Jane replies. “I think most women would. It’s men who don’t know how to do it.”
There are so many hidden miniature break-ups within a big break-up.
I want to take my mangled break-up in my mouth and drop it in front of them like a cat bringing in a bloodied mouse
that.” “Why did you think it was drugs?” I ask, heaving myself off the floor. “Well, it’s a well-trodden path
She’s gone from girlfriend to uncle-standing-in-the-hallway-as-I-arrive-for-Christmas
I have known Seb for ten seconds and I already know that he has a signature dish and a weights routine
Emery walks into the dressing room wearing an actual backwards baseball cap.
A good time needs the fires of tragedy underneath it to keep it on a rolling boil.
She wasn’t alive when my favourite album was released, but guess what? Bridge Over Troubled Water was released in 1970, so neither was I!
on a first date is reassure women that they’re the first person you’ve ever fancied while also giving off the casual impression that thousands upon thousands of people have fancied you.
“I’m not charging women three pounds seventy to stay overnight here like it’s a seaside bed and breakfast from the 1970s.
I have a really terrible feeling that what I am experiencing is The Flip. That a change in power has occurred
Because the person who is in charge in a relationship is the one who loves the least.
our thoughts are unreliable and they invent things and they lie to us and give bad advice. Not talking about the sadness is what leads us into The Madness.
“Getting dumped is never really about getting dumped.” “What is it about, then?” I ask. “It’s about every rejection you’ve ever experienced in your entire life.
You have to be prepared to let go and let go and let go a thousand times.”
“Life is a bit more difficult for women. More difficult than it is for us, I mean.
don’t know whether it was something I actually wanted, or whether it was something I got frustrated with myself for not wanting.
inevitability of every relationship: the things which initially draw you to each other become the exact things that irritate you the most.
He would have loved me unquestioningly and stubbornly forever. And I don’t know if I want to be loved like that.
relationship ends. It’s called the 90/10 rule. The theory goes: whatever the crucial 10 per cent is that was missing from your partner who was otherwise totally right for you is the thing you look for in the following person. That missing 10 per cent becomes such a fixation that, when you do find someone who has it, you ignore the fact they don’t have the other 90 per cent that the previous partner had.
he’d lost a lot of weight, but I was still surprised to see how jacked-up and hollowed-out he was. I preferred how he looked before. Everyone I knew had said the same.
and I asked her if she was worried I would end up by myself. “Jen,” she said, taking my hand in both of hers. “You’ve always been alone, my darling.
