Let It Snow

by Beth Moran

‘I haven’t had a chance to read it yet.’ If ‘had a chance’ meant ‘summoned the mental strength’.

‘Okay, so who could remember apart from someone so full of sickeningly, soppy love for her that he files away every minute thing she does?’

Yet, something in his stance, the glint in his eyes, the crooked smile, gave the warning that he was far from holy.

‘Why focus on the one small thing that’s not perfect, when the rest is so good?’

As a respecter of science, I refused to believe in love at first sight. But at seventh sight? I had the evidence to prove it.

For the first time I realised, with an overwhelming rush of dread, that love wasn’t going to be enough.

‘I think the coolest thing you can do is be yourself.’

miracles have a much higher chance of happening if you try.’

‘I’d say that if your family taught me anything, it’s the value of authenticity. Being true to yourself and what you believe to be important in the small things as well as the big ones.’

Henry had bought me a small gift box of chocolate, on which was printed ‘Best Christmas Ever because it’s with you’.

Everything feels wrong when I don’t have you.

I’m choosing you, every time.

The guilt and the shame were like a crushing weight on the back of my head.

you can accept that the only thing you can change now is what happens next.

‘What’s free time?’ ‘A rare and fleeting commodity,’

I’m saying that sometimes it’s worth taking a huge risk for something that means so much to you, even if other people might consider it to be foolish and irresponsible.’

disappointment – quite possibly my least favourite of all parental emotions, despite being the one I was most familiar with.