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The Other Woman The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
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“There’s something about your mother’s voice that nobody else can replicate.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“You’re never too old for your mum to care about you,”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“she peered round that curtain I felt as if my heart were about to burst. That feeling, when only your mother will do, never really goes away, and as she whispered in my ear that everything would be all right,”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Sometimes things happen and you have no way of understanding them. You try to find a reason to justify it, but there isn’t always an answer. It’s just life.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“loved him. I don’t know why, because I did. Perhaps it was all part of that in-built defense mechanism that women seem to be born with, that bogs us down and keeps us from saying the things we really want to say. Believing that holding back somehow keeps us one step ahead, making us the better, stronger gender. Why,”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Sorry,”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Perhaps it was all part of that in-built defense mechanism that women seem to be born with, that bogs us down and keeps us from saying the things we really want to say. Believing that holding back somehow keeps us one step ahead, making us the better, stronger gender. Why, then, did pretending to be someone I wasn’t leave me feeling weak and bereft?”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“It was just a beautiful meeting of two people who were utterly in tune with each other.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“My mum was here. Everything would be okay.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“I remember the Sunday morning that she had woken me up, with tears streaming down her face, to tell me that the Princess had died. We sat in front of the TV all day, along with millions of others, praying that someone had got it wrong.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“by the time I was on that tiny chair behind the screen, all I wanted was my mum: to take away both my physical and emotional pain.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“There’s something about your mother’s voice that nobody else can replicate. That takes you back to school, when you were little and waiting in the nurse’s office for her to come and pick you up.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“new”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Three glasses of Pinot Grigio in, and it was getting worse. It felt like they had their own private club, one which I didn't have a membership to.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“I'll have you know that I'm the cream of the crop in my industry. One of the highest ranking performers in the field.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“won’t be a”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“It is if you do anything about it, but for now, it’s locked up in a lovely little fantasy room that we’re all allowed to have and like to look into, but never actually enter. That’s the difference.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Whether my injury would be sufficient to warrant calling her. But I so needed to feel safe, it was a risk I was prepared to take. It felt like hours before she arrived, though I knew she was there even before I saw her. I just sensed her, and when she peered round that curtain I felt as if my heart was about to burst. That feeling, when only your mother will do, never really goes away, and as she whispers in my ear that everything will be all right, my heart breaks”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“he didn’t blame social media for everything that was wrong with the world. “If you don’t like what it represents, why do you go on it?” he’d asked, when I moaned about old school friends posting every burp, fart, and word their child offered.”
Sandie Jones, The Other Woman