To Have and Hate (Love in London, #1)

by Donna Alam

‘What most people don’t understand is that offence exists not within the insult but within any reaction to it.’

‘Failure is not final. What’s important is having the courage to continue, no matter what else.’ ‘I

‘The issue was that you were determined to take it personally. If you hadn’t been so ready to be offended, you would’ve heard what I actually said. Which is that I choose not to become emotionally invested in people’s opinions of me. Their words have no power; therefore, their opinions are insignificant. It’s a thought process.’

‘A diamond doesn’t lose its value due to a lack of admiration.’ My thumb rubs over the sparkling stones I’d slipped onto her slender finger just a little while ago. ‘Value your own worth, Olivia. For it is great.’

A fickle and a changeful thing is a woman?

She calls me the devil, yet she looks positively demonic.

We may hide things from the people we love, but it seems entirely possible for us to also hide things from ourselves as I refuse to acknowledge her grandmother’s other words of advice.

You can be right, or you can be happy. It’s up to you to choose.

‘You know what they say; you can’t have a relationship without fights, but you can make a relationship worth the fight.’

‘You are my church and my chapel, my darling. And I’ll worship you for the rest of my life.’