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“Whatever happens next . . . you’re my soul mate.”
The First One After Dan experience had been a strange combination of quite overwhelming and completely straightforward.
Once she realized she was neither off-putting, nor remotely boring to him, she was, as Jamie said, unstoppable.
Laurie marveled at how these months had transformed Dan from the person she knew best in the world to this person, sitting a short distance and yet a whole continent away.
Every time I see you. When I see you with him. It’s like being turned inside out.”
I’m going to turn forty soon affair because she flattered me and came on to me and I started to let myself believe there was this other life I should be having.
It was so much easier to tell myself I was bored and dissatisfied with you, that you were holding me back. That someone else was the fix.”
“I would’ve tried to come back, asked to come back. It was a fad, a phase and you and I are forever. Or we were. And then she . . . Not she, we. We got pregnant.
If I’d said, ‘Right now I want her more than you,’ it would’ve been the most terrible thing.”
I could’ve started the process of coping straightaway, instead of having to turn into Sherlock Holmes, trying to crack the puzzle. It’s the lies that killed me. Feeling I wasn’t important enough or worth enough after these years
“Do you love him?” “Yes,” she said quietly. “It’s grown into something neither of us expected.”
I want you to be happy. Seeing you lately has reminded me of who I fell in love
You are”—Dan cleared his throat—“a force to be reckoned with.”
“I’m sorry it took this to remind you of who you fell in love with,” Laurie sa...
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Only intense sadness that two decades of their life had ended the way it did, that a chapter of her life, a chapter she’d thought would be the full story, had closed.
that it was fate, that it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance and it changed everything forever.
I did meet the love of my life that day. Only it wasn’t Dan. You are the love of my life.
keep a close eye on the worst things that happened to you, they could turn out to be a doorway, a route to someplace else entirely, a map you couldn’t yet read.
Daniel Price deciding he was done? It was the best thing that could’ve happened to her.
it turned out this wasn’t about finding the treasure; it was about the friends I made along the way.”
It seems to be all that’s driven you since I’ve known you.” “I’ve changed since I’ve known you.”
“Jamie, the truth is sometimes of value in itself. Not working out what it’ll get you.”
“I know you’re honest and decent and I love you for it, but this is how it actually works.
Laurie’s chest hurt. It was one of those rare times when you can feel something being torn down, the something intangible that exists between you.
It was one of those moments that decided how everything was going to be afterward.
“I’m not sure I know who you are,” Laurie said simply.
“In that case, you’re not who I thought you were either,” Jamie said.
She thought he’d fight harder. Apparently not.
She hadn’t begun to mentally pick through the wreckage of what happened with Jamie.
How had it all gone wrong so fast?
He’d not contacted her since the fight, so that was clearly that.
She’d not contacted him either, of course, so this was hypocritical. But what would she say?
who could be so generous and open and then so cold and hard in that moment outside the office.
Better to forcibly banish doubt, and get on with the rest of her life.
no one can change anyone’s character. No love of a good woman can fix a bad man. It’s you who told me this!”
your mind has to start the process, and your heart will follow.
Well, I’m in some pain over it, but I know that it will pass and I’ll feel happier again, at some point. That will do for now.”
“To what happiness looks like to us.”
“To deciding what our happiness is, and being happy that way.
She was going to dress up, only for herself, make a giant lunch, only for herself,
Finding out she could manage on her own was great.
She’d lost Dan, and coped; she’d lost Jamie, and coped. She’d drawn a final line with her dad, and coped. And if she lost her job, she’d cope.
So much of her life had been about being scared of not being wanted by people.
We don’t only divine character in how people handle wins. You see more in the disasters.”
“I think Jamie and I are just not meant to be.”
just that simply seeing you would hurt too much.”
She has no ego in that way whatsoever, I don’t think. So that’s something I can definitely bring to our relationship,
We help each other in a way that I didn’t know was possible.
together. I keep thinking: if I’d never met her, how different things would be.
I didn’t know what it could be like with someone you’re actually in love with.)
