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“A bigger pool doesn’t necessarily mean a better swim,”
“You prickle when someone tries to pay you a compliment, but you equally prickle when someone understates your worth. Spiky.”
But for her, contentment waned quite quickly to become a faint questioning, which bloomed into nagging doubt and ultimately wholehearted assuredness that it wasn’t right. Laura called it self-sabotage. Kate called it gut instinct.
“Men seem to have this idea that showing emotion is a sign of weakness, when really, the opposite is true.”
“There’s nothing wrong with staying in, if it makes you happy,” said her dad. “But you’re hiding. And that’s not the same thing at all.”
He was right. She had been hiding. Because it was easier to hide away and never meet anybody than to potentially meet someone only to have it fail again.
“I’ve reached the point where I’d rather be by myself than compromise.
“People confuse nostalgia with love and end up getting divorces or having affairs and all sorts.
“Are you sure,” said Laura, “that this isn’t you self-sabotaging again? You know what you’re like. A good thing comes along and you pick holes in it until it falls apart.
