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the rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn’t really matter how ugly they were themselves.)
“I guess maybe our lives haven’t turned out quite the way we envisaged they would when we were thirty.”
I wanted to be Alice, young and lovely, feeling the secret caress of a handsome boy’s fingertip.
She thought again of that silly solitary trip through Europe, brushing her teeth in strange bathrooms, staring at herself in speckled mirrors with a dizzy feeling of dissociation as she tried to work out who she really was
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
It always bugged me when teachers forgot to ask for the homework they’d set. It made the world seem undependable.
She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to “point your life in a new direction.”
It’s possible my mental health is poorly at the moment.
stop being such a wanker.
Tonight a handsome man (I may not have referred to his handsomeness previously) kissed me and it was heavenly.
First dates. How wonderful to experience a first date again.
She was part of her daily routine.
How can you pick the right man when you’re in your twenties and stupid?
Nick might run a company but Dominick ran a school. And which one was contributing more to the community?
