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“To tell you that I’m sorry. I doubted you and I freaked out. I trusted Dan and he let me down and I wasn’t ready to go through that again.”
I shouldn’t have needed to hear you’d said those things. I knew them anyway, because it’s how I feel too.”
“That’s what’s special about us. It’s funny, given I thought we were chalk and cheese, but it’s like we have some sort of telepathy.
purposely turned that intuition off, and surrendered to what everyone else thought...
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rely on my own judgment because it let me down so badly where...
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him, I trust, and I am madly in love in with.”
“What I’m saying is, do you want to try again?” she said. “No, not really, what’s done is done,”
If there’s any chance whatsoever you might change your mind, I want that chance more than anything in the world.
wouldn’t waste that chance. I’d use it for the rest of our lives, in fact. All my love, Jamie x
“I’m so sorry for what I put you through,”
Keeping my cards close to my chest became second nature.”
“And, you know, if it’s a no, I will cope fine. It struck me as a thing I’d really enjoy doing.”
that’s me, now. I ask for a lot.”
Laurie felt loved, and, more than that, she’d remembered how to love herself.
She wanted his answer to be yes, but a no wouldn’t change eit...
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Whatever happened in the future, Laurie would never forget the lessons of these months. She was a survivor of some difficult things, and she was happy.
“I like making up our own rules. Let’s keep doing that.”
You know how we said we had to define what happiness looks like for ourselves? Without fear of judgment?
Something I’m learning as an author is that no matter how much you think you’re in control of the process of a book, the story to some extent decides what it wants to be.
Despite thinking they’re superficially very different, Laurie and Jamie discover they have deep similarities.
As well as falling in love, they help each other to come to terms with things they’d not faced up to before.
Your presence. Your presence, which I took for granted.
It will always be like this, I have come to realize. The ache is permanent, it must be accommodated. It’s part of my body now.
I keep waiting to get past it. To “move on,” to absorb it, to set it aside, to make sense of it, to process it.
For it to be, somehow, “behind” m...
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Someone has gone, forever, and you have to stop waiting for them to come back.
This is what I never knew about loss—it’s also about what you gain.
Serious hygge to be had, on this side of the window.
a tiny, near-imperceptible moment passes between us, and
walking essay crisis with the Cleopatra eyes.”
don’t we all, in a sense, crop out our nuclear power stations?”
everyone presents their life like it’s a holiday destination,”
“I always think when an ex is super happy with someone else they should be thanking you for ending things,”
“Clearly you were right to split up. Why is it all ‘yeah suck it, in your face, I’m thriving!’
I know, as we hit our mid-thirties, it’s feeling just a trifle hollow.
Co-dependency. You are each other’s other halves, so you don’t bother with relationships as well.”
Ed’s very loyal. Sometimes naturally loyal people fail to spot when they shouldn’t be loyal.
I knew right then I had found someone very, very special.”
