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‘The possibility of us,’
She loved the way he talked to his son, so casual and funny and masculine and loving.
Cute
It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with them and wake up with them, to do really quite extraordinarily personal things together on a regular basis, and then, suddenly, you don’t even know their telephone number, or where they’re living or working, or what they did today or last week or last year. Ellen watched a giant wave on the horizon curl and crash with a distant boom.
Very captivating
When her grandparents were alive they would walk along this beach every night just before the six o’clock news.
This us adorable
You weren’t meant to admit, even to yourself, how badly you wanted love. The man was meant to be the icing, not the cake.
remember when this was my home and this was my backyard and this was my life.
So there is a lot more to this than he let on
(we didn’t wean him off his dummy until he was nearly four;
So they were together flor AT LEAST 2 years?? Wtf
‘I think it’s over.’ ‘You think what’s over?’ I said cheerfully. That’s how unexpected it was. I didn’t have any idea what he was talking about. A TV series? The summer? He meant us. We were over.
Omg that dick head!! Team Sas tbh
The words ‘I love you’ began to hover in Ellen’s thoughts, like a song lyric she couldn’t get out of her head.
I’ve been in her house. I’ve used her bathroom. I know what brand deodorant and tampons she uses.
Whereas my filter is a labyrinth of pipes and funnels and sieves that converts everything I think into something acceptable to say, depending on the situation and the person and what I’m trying to prove at that particular moment.
I love this it’s very relatable
only she had a grey-haired, bespectacled father who would warmly shake Patrick’s hand and ask him man-to-man questions about surveying, while the sweet mother fussed about, trying to get the ‘fellows’ to take a second piece of cheesecake.
