After You Left Quotes

“everyone you meet loves something, longs for something and has lost something.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“You shouldn’t minimise moments, Alice. Our whole life is made up of them. It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“If you want to be in love, you have to accept that you run the risk of having your heart broken in such a way that it’s almost impossible to mend. Some of us can live quite happily without that wretched experience. But some of us can’t. We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.’ Evelyn”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how silence is a sound of its own.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“That grey area between what we know and what we think we know.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“You will get past this. Sometimes, you just have to face what you fear the most. It’s shitty, but it’s life.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Some of us can live quite happily without that wretched experience. But some”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Anyone who judges us secretly envies us. Anyone who thinks they’ve done it all better than we have is lying to the one person we should never, ever, lie to – themselves.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“You have to have the grace to let him go, and to live with his choices. Don't be a clinger. Don't fight to keep him, because you won't win.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Those are the best memories, you know. Memories of things that end when they should. Always remember.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“If you want to be in love, you have to accept that you run the risk of having your heart broken in such a way that it’s almost impossible to mend.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Envy is the most futile of emotions. Sometimes, you are envying an idea you have about someone, but you’re actually envying fiction.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Time advances, we have opportunities for better education, better jobs, a greater say in national politics, yet the love of the right man is still the thing we want more than anything else, even though we’re supposed to be more self-sufficient than that.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“The need for answers is suddenly greater than my ability to handle them – perhaps I will just disappear into never knowing. Perhaps it’ll be easier.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“off. I would have been a very lucky man if I’d managed to get”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“squirt hair product into the palm of my hand. All the other questions rush at me now, as I tip my head back and let it hang there. How”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I can’t help but think about the concept of loneliness, of having no one – how tangible melancholy is.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“had to create a false truth: that taking another woman’s husband is okay, especially if perhaps you have succeeded where she has failed: in showing him that you need him more.’ ‘So”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“all my life, I have known this to be true. Nobody’s interested in ugly people. I’ve been ugly all my life, and it got me nowhere, but I’ve known some very beautiful people who were successful.’ This”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“He loved me so much that he could think of nothing except being with me,’ Evelyn had said. ‘He wanted to leave his marriage. He wanted me to leave mine. He loved me to the point where he had lost all reason.’ Her face had clouded. I’d thought she had been about to cry. I had felt so incredibly bleak, a quiet voice asking, Why didn’t Justin love me like that? ‘What happened?’ I asked her. She pulled out her pretty handkerchief again.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“remember Justin telling me about how, when he heard his dad had died, he ran away. He was only missing a few hours – he’d been hiding in a barn – but his mother had rung the police. ‘Is”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“It’s just such a monstrous thing to do,’ Sally says now, looking at my food. ‘I just don’t know what kind of person would abandon his wife on their honeymoon, halfway across the world!”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Everything happens for a reason. It’s not a cliché, I can promise.’ I”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I am endlessly astonished how I can be hit so unexpectedly by something I already know. I’ve”
― Carol Mason, After You Left