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“But I found the reality of boys to be slightly disappointing. Not as funny as the girls I had met there, not nearly as interesting or kind.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“he takes me to a martini bar because he remembers I said it was my favorite drink (at this point I am still in the “training myself to like martinis’ phase, so worry he’ll see my first-sip wince, but I manage to hold it together).”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“As I got older and mercifully more aware of what a precious gift a healthy working body is, I felt ashamed and bewildered that I could have treated mine so badly. But it would be a lie to say I think I will ever be entirely free of what happened in that time, which is something no one ever tells you. You can restore your physical being to health; you can develop a rational, balanced, caring attitude to weight as well as good daily habits. But you can’t forget how many calories are in a boiled egg or how many steps burn how many calories.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“The Most Annoying Things People Say –​“I’m not going to have a starter, are you?” –​“I’m more of a boys’ girl”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Nothing will change.” It drives me bananas. Everything will change. Everything will change. The love we have for each other stays the same, but the format, the tone, the regularity, and the intimacy of our friendship will change forever.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“a woman always slots into a man’s life better than he slots into hers. She will be the one who spends the most time at his flat, she will be the one who makes friends with all his friends and their girlfriends. She will be the one who sends his mother a bunch of flowers on her birthday.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Boys fascinated me and frightened me in equal measure; I didn’t understand them and neither did I want to. Their function was for gratification, whereas female friends provided everything else that mattered.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“And if this is it, if this is all there is—just me and the trees and the sky and the seas—I know now that that’s enough.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“I am whole and complete. I will never run out. And I am more than enough.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“If you feel exhausted by people, it’s because you’re willingly playing the martyr to make them like you. It’s your problem, not theirs.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learned in my long-term friendships with women.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Piglet understood how it was, how it would always be: they, the family; her, the imposter—still, always.”
― Lottie Hazell, Piglet

“I wouldn’t mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don’t know the way out.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I say you save the innocent bystander if you can, even if she’s a society dame, or he’s a captain of industry thriving mightily on all these repressive moves—but not, not, not at the expense of other, realer people. And if you can’t save them, you can’t. Everything costs.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her—is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West