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Doreen was his polar opposite – a flighty, part-time wife and parent who sauntered in and out of our lives through her own set of revolving doors.
Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them.
It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea.
‘But that’s what love is, Simon. It’s never giving up on the person you’ve given your heart to. It’s having faith that no matter how tough things get, that person will always be looking for you.’
You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.
He’d been so hasty to blame everyone else for not living up to the perfection he’d expected from them, yet he was the least perfect of them all. He’d been the architect of his own misery.
