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She takes her phone from the bedside table and opens Instagram to see who’s got engaged, married or pregnant in the last eight hours. She breathes a small sigh of relief when there are no diamond rings or baby emojis in sight.
It says ‘poor me’, but it means ‘praise me’.
She wonders what would happen to her social life if she was honest online.
Maybe she could pull off a Dawn Porter.
just like the jellyfisher in Bridget Jones
‘My happiness takes the shape of Daniel Craig feeding me mashed potato on a Mexican beach.’
‘You know, you don’t have to be like everyone else, Amy.’
If this was a film, Amy thinks, Jamie would be the caricature villain that everyone wants to see fall.
The car is quiet as they cross the river at Hammersmith. ‘The Apollo!’
Oh, shut up, Amy, scolds her inner voice. Jamie doesn’t say sorry. He’s an arsehole.
‘People love seeing other people fall. It makes them feel better about their own lives.’
Dylan is a filthy-looking man-child,
‘Christ on a bike, why does mine look like Phil Mitchell?’
‘Well, I’ve wasted two years of my life with the wrong person, and now I have to start all over again.’ She can feel her cheeks heating up. ‘Start what all over again?’ ‘I don’t know, trying to find someone to do life with?’
‘But then the bells of doom sound like gongs, warning me that time is running out and that it’s too late to chase dreams like that.’
‘Women shouldn’t have to hide their bodies just because men are so basic they can’t handle a bit of flesh without getting a boner.’
Being single isn’t scary. What’s scary is being stuck with someone who will make you miserable for the rest of your life. That’s the real campfire horror story.
There’s a grain of truth in every joke.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt from the women around me is that listening to your gut is more important than obsessing over the size of it.
If they don’t text you back, but they’re always on their phone.
If their favourite show is The Big Bang Theory.
The art of confrontation can be tricky to master, but it’s worth investing the effort in doing so.
