Husband Material (London Calling, #2)

by Alexis Hall

I love you and it’s not okay for people to treat you badly and I’m not going to say I was wrong to stand up for you.”

“This may be just another habit of mind I’ve inherited from my parents, but I tend to believe that the things which feel worst are the things which feel truest. That doesn’t mean they always are.

Yeah. Definitely not a words situation.

My father was a man of certainties, but I think I am happy being a man of questions.

“So often, I think, when a person dies—when a complicated person dies, even when an unambiguously awful person dies, not that I believe there are any truly unambiguously awful people—it’s for those of us left behind to pick over ourselves and ask, ‘Am I this way in spite of this person or because of them?’ And so often the answer is simply yes.