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“I don’t want the brain of my twenty-one-year-old self. Or the impulses or the bloody . . . inner turmoil. I want everything I have now—I want all the lessons I’ve learned and the experiences I’ve had and to know all the stuff I know. But I want to transpose myself back to the physical state of being twenty-one forever, with all my life ahead of me.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people’s houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.”
― Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl

“would like to pause the story a moment to talk about “nothing will change.” I’ve heard it said to me repeatedly by women I love during my twenties when they move in with boyfriends, get engaged, move abroad, get married, get pregnant. “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

“More secrets I did not like wearing shorts when I was little because I didn’t want people to know I had knees.”
― Georgia Pritchett, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety – A Funny and Poignant Memoir from the Emmy-Winning Writer of Succession