Single Quotes

“But for the most part we wouldn’t have otherwise got to spend that extended time with them in our thirties. For me, it really was a blessing in disguise.”
― Nicola Slawson, Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“It’s also good to look for the silver linings when it comes to our families too. For a long time, this thought of being a grown-up kid who hasn’t left her nuclear family made me feel kind of embarrassed and like I was doing things wrong. But over the last few years, I’ve realized how lucky I am. The time we get with our parents is finite and, thanks to my long-term singleness, I have got to spend a lot more time with them than I may otherwise have done.”
― Nicola Slawson, Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“I don’t remember ever doubting, when I was young, that I would one day get married, and have a house, and babies, just like my parents and all my friends’ parents, and just like all the main characters in the stories I read and watched.”
― Nicola Slawson, Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“Since then, she has made it her mission to prove that untold numbers of people are what she calls, single at heart. She says, “People who are single at heart live their best, most fulfilling, meaningful, authentic, and psychologically rich lives by remaining single. They’re not single because they’re unhappy in love, or have had bad experiences, or they never met the right person, or that they have issues. They’re don’t believe it is better to be single than in a bad relationship because that’s too grudging. They know that for them, it is just better to be single. Full stop. It is who they authentically are.”
― Nicola Slawson, Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“Some of the absolute best times of my life had happened while I’d been single. My life was now completely unrecognizable from what it’d been from when I had last used the word boyfriend.”
― Nicola Slawson, Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms