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But I smiled anyway because he didn’t deserve my emotional authenticity.
After all, it wasn’t like I was ever going to see Miles again.
Famous last words you’re going to his wedding bitch
The advantage of having your own office was that it always gave you somewhere to hide when you suddenly discovered that one of your coworkers had unwittingly stumbled into the world of soft-core pornography.
The horrors.
“Then get them a toast rack and put a note in it asking when he’s going to pay back the fifty thousand pounds he owes you.”
Devious. Genius. Writing this down.
it still scared me how vulnerable sex could make me feel.
Real.
Which meant it was way easier to say Spank me, Daddy, which we both knew I didn’t mean, than Hold me, I love you, which I definitely did.
Oliver was mine, and I was his, and I was kind of completely, embarrassingly, disgustingly in love with him.
Awe omg. Goals <3
After all, if we were still breaking the furniture, we were doing something right.
Thats the spirit
ignore the part of my brain that was screaming, She’s doomed, and so are you. Meeting Miles was a sign, and everything you think you can count on is wrong
It was like whatever I did, no matter how hard I tried, the universe wanted me to know that, on some level, I was a crappy person.
That was the problem with dating a good person. They got their ethics all over you.
I was in a grey dick area.
Couldn't Have said it better myself
What I hadn’t expected was for him to be standing in the hall in full black tie holding a blue-velvet jewellery box.
!!!!!!!!
“Oh, good. Because unnegotiated choking was not what I had planned for this evening.”
And, again, it was testament to how far we’d come that I had only a slight desire to shove him into a ditch.
This is the love I require.
any career that involved wearing a wig but never lip-synching was weird by definition,
while we tried to do the sartorial equivalent of turning an eighteen-wheel van in a residential street.
loving the lorry reference
If it was suffering from an unknown disease, I’d call it Subject One.”
This made no sense. I was happier than I had ever been in my life. So why did I feel like I was failing?
For about ninety seconds I felt real bile rising up in my stomach because people were awwwing for my arsehole ex and his jailbait boyfriend.
And I was, once again, the one left behind with nothing.
he told me he was fine, and not dog-in-a-burning-room fine.
“Let’s be clear,” I told him, trying to match his air of casual mateyness. “I’m glad you’re happy. You and JoJo seem like you’ll be great together. But we are never going to be friends because you will always be the guy who sold me out for the price of a Toyota Supra.”
But you should know that I am yours, more truly than I have ever been anyone’s. Because when I’m with you, I’m me.
Not someone I think I should be. And I’ll be with you, however you want, for as long as you’ll have me.”
Oliver had nothing to fear from this guy. Because he very much came across as white-suit, nice-hat Julia Roberts whereas I was more thigh-high-boots-with-a-safety-pin Julia Roberts.
together. But instead I was starting my engagement drowning in lies.
“Yes,” said Oliver, as he de-spanielled the sofa. “My refusal to drink milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.”
And damn right, it's better than yours.
“So I decided that if the choice was getting wanked over by strangers or fucked over by the Department for Education, I’d pick the one that paid better.”
Smart girl
“Attitude. If I want to have an adventure, I’ll bloody well have an adventure.”
An eye for an eye leaves the world overpaying for table settings.
Daddy’s simply batty about steam locomotives.”
Autism
The thing was, I didn’t need Oliver to run me a bath. I was perfectly capable of running one for myself. But.… It was nice, wasn’t it? To be taken care of.
“I’d do a great many things for you, Lucien, but I draw the line at arson.”
“Be gay. Do crimes?”
Rule number 2 in the gay handbook
