Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

by Alexis Hall

“It’s just…it’s going to be all hard and messy.” “Lots of things are. Many of them are still worth doing.”

bad things are not the exclusive province of bad people.”

“You’ve been through a lot today,” he said. “There’s no need to diminish it.” “Yeah, but if I don’t diminish things I have to face them at their normal size, and that’s horrible.” “I think it’s usually better to face the world as it is. The more we try to hide from something, the more power we give it.”

if we let happy things make us unhappy when they stopped, there would be no point having happy things.”