Exquisite Quotes

“Unrequited love had been all I was capable of. It gave me all the emotional jolts of real love, without ever having to drown myself in intimacy. Now, I realised, that drama had been reversed. Now, I drew people in and then retreated. Their hearts broke and I watched from the sidelines, guilty and ashamed, but with all the satisfaction of knowing I was deeply loved, while never having to make any of it real.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“The thing about being hurt badly is that the only person who can make you feel better is the person who hurt you, and so you keep going back and they keep making you better, but then they hurt you again, and so it goes on.’ And”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“You should walk. It will make you feel better.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“Mothers are an underwritten subject. There isn’t enough about them, and yet they’re so important. Fathers are too, of course; but that’s different, because we live in a world where all the expectation is heaped on the mother. For all of us, what we experience with our mothers is the blueprint; it sets the stage for every other relationship we make and if it fails, the consequences can last forever.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“They were always so pleased to see me, and the happiness it brought me was always tinged with regret, because how much longer would it go on like this?”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“It was when I was walking that I could best think about my work and had all my ideas.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“His routine was fixed. A morning spent reading books, then a sandwich in front of the local lunchtime news and an afternoon of brain-training games on the iPad.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“He wouldn’t be looking for deep emotional entanglement or a love that would rock the world. I didn’t want that, either. I was suspicious of love and what it did to people – those dark depths of anguish and horror; the thought of it all made me shudder.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“And I knew, as clearly as I knew night from day, that this life would destroy me, and I couldn’t live it.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“I’d mastered this particular skill over the years: sowing the seed of half my desire, then letting him grab and plant the rest.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite

“Get outside. Walk. Breathe. Live.”
― Sarah Stovell, Exquisite