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“we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Last night, Adam took me to see Hamilton. That’s a show that’s really big right now, based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury. I know, it’s hard to believe that could be a hit Broadway show, but it really is.”
― Freida McFadden, The Wife Upstairs

“.. it doesn't matter if you understand another person's pain because their injury is real nonetheless.”
― Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest

“A good cup of tea cures all ills. And if it doesn't, have another.”
― Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest

“One foot in front of the other. It's the only way to get anywhere in this life.”
― Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest

“We’re all the same in different ways. Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
― Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest

“I despise football. I cannot watch a single minute without getting fed up, annoyed or bored. I blame myself. I should never have married a football fanatic. It’s the price I must now pay for my own stupidity.”
― Jessica Huntley, Horrible Husbands

“I think you’ll find that in CSI they never set out to murder people. They solve murders.”
― Jessica Huntley, Horrible Husbands

“I can’t give them an iPad and say, ‘Here, watch Minecraft while Mummy goes and kills Daddy.”
― Jessica Huntley, Horrible Husbands

“She preferred reading paperbacks but there was no arguing with the convenience of an electronic reader.”
― Valerie Keogh, The Wives

“I’m just an anxious person. Always have been. Always will be.”
― Jessica Huntley, Under Her Skin

“sealing him up in it like a large burrito.”
― Jessica Huntley, Under Her Skin

“You may be wondering what he could have possibly done to deserve to die. The answer: he was still alive.”
― Jessica Huntley, My Dark Self

“Fiona’s place was the kind of neat and clean you could only achieve if you didn’t have children. A house where you could leave a room tidy knowing that next time you walked back in that room it wasn’t going to have been trashed.”
― Mark Edwards, The Psychopath Next Door

“it’s quite another to find out in the kitchen, with your best friend present, while you’re both dressed as different iterations of Britney Spears.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“Well, I think we might need tea for this conversation.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“If you love someone, you love only them.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“But you know, there’s something wonderful about being a stepparent too.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“How my life turns out is down to me and no one else.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“I think things are working out the way they should. I know it doesn’t look like that to you right now, but it will.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“There’s nothing of me in there, and that’s okay. Because she isn’t mine in that biological way. But she’s mine – as well as theirs – in every way that matters.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“You know it won’t all be easy, don’t you? Even if it’s the right person, you’ll still face challenges along the way.”
― Laura Pearson, The Many Futures of Maddy Hart

“To the dream-chasers with messy hair, fire in their souls, and no idea what day it is— This one’s for you.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“sometime around their eighth birthdays, they each decided they no longer needed to spend time with us unless absolutely necessary.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“There are just these periods where things feel safe and calm, and then, long before we’re ready, everything’s torn apart and we call it change.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Amendment

“What in the child bride is this?”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“I turn the kettle on, a teabag already waiting in the cup. I smile. It’s in these little details, isn’t it? These details that let us know we’re loved. It’s not red roses and surprise tickets, jewellery in blue boxes or poetry; it’s in the simple things that show me I’m on his mind.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before The One

“There is something dreamlike when you see yourself in your wedding dress, like you’re seeing a different version of yourself, a paradoxical image,”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before The One

“That’s what I was trying to do until you started throwing your arms around like an air traffic controller.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before The One