Daisy Haites Quotes

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you,' I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. 'In another life I would have let you-' Never you mind that I already love her in this one.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“It's the great undoing of my heart as I know it.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“You're Central Park at midnight.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“If this is what being loved by him on accident feels like, I can't imagine what it'd feel like to be loved on purpose.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“She is the goddess in the Botticelli clam shell, her eyes are the waterlilies in Monet’s pond, she is the hand of God reaching down to mankind. Klimt’s kiss is a portrait of us and I’m gonna steal it. Take it, make it mine, make her mine too.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Mum used to say to me—when you pick who you want to be with, you have to imagine every part of life, every scenario. Good, bad, happy, sad, painful, beautiful—not just the person you want to do road trips with, but the person you want to be stuck in gridlock traffic with. Not just the person you want to have babies with, but the person you want to grieve with, the person you want next to you on the worst day of your life, at the funeral of someone you love, who's next to you? You don't need a fair-weather lover, you need the person that's going to stand next to you in their wellies, staring down the barrel of the storm.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“What am I to you?” “Oh, I don’t know—” I give her a little shrug, stare straight ahead. Take a long sip before I look over at her. “Like, just—everything.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Let me be clear now then, Daisy—” Gives me a tall look. “I am fucked up in love with you.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you,” I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. “In another life I would have let you—”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Loving him will be my magnum opus.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“His face cracks into the best smile I've ever seen and will ever see, because his face is... fuck The Mona Lisa, screw The Last Supper, never think of Michelangelo's David again—they all pale compared to him in front of me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Over the mantelpiece she hung her own portrait up herself, that little minx. Best painting I've ever seen, too. Better than any woman anyone has ever painted in the history of time, a face I'd win battles for. A face I'd lose anything for. Even her. It's time.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Daisy for me was a complete trip—I accidentally fell in love with her, and I accidentally lost her. I wasn’t ready for it. I wasn’t ready to love someone how it turns out I love her.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“There's not much I wouldn't give just to have her next to me in it all, anything, really. Just not her life, and I'm pretty sure that's the going rate.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I love her more than I’ve ever loved anything and I thought I might have been able to angle it, find a way for us to work. A life between where I can be who I am and love her how I do and it not be the death of her, but it’s not on the cards. I’d be the death of her, and I won’t be.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I just never saw her coming, I couldn't have picked loving her out of a lineup”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“It’s the great undoing of my heart as I know it. She’s made herself at home, kicked off those fucking cerulean heels, put her feet up on my left rib. Over the mantelpiece she hung her own portrait up herself, that little minx. Best painting I’ve ever seen, too. Better than any woman anyone has ever painted in the history of time, a face I’d win battles for. A face I’d lose anything for. Even her.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“It's never just an anything with you.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“just never saw her coming, I couldn’t have picked loving her out of a line-up until it happened and then it was everything: my first thought, last thought, mid-thought, the name I’d say in my sleep, the body I’d think about when I was with other bodies, the smell I’d try to chase down every time I’d walk through Selfridges just so I could breathe in something that smelt like her and feel close to her again, but I can never find it.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Isn’t it funny how pain and sadness can be forgotten for fleeting moments? Your brain gets a tiny bit distracted and it offers you the briefest moment of reprieve. The problem with those reprieves is that they aren’t real, and reality comes hurtling back. And then you have to remember all over again that your dad is dead”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you," I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. "In another life I would have let you-" Never you mind that I already love her in this one.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“She squints over at me. “Did you really do that for me or is this just a merry coincidence?” “You know what, Tiges, I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve fallen into the ranks of men who find that there’s very little that they wouldn’t do for you.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“In another life i reckon i could have loved you.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Okay.” He nods once then ducks a little so we’re eye-to-eye. “Let me be clear now then, Daisy—” Gives me a tall look. “I am fucked up in love with you.[*] Have never stopped loving you, since the second I realised I did, and I admit it, it took me too long to know it but I know it now, and I can’t unknow it. I don’t want to unknow it, I want to be with you.” He tells me, not looking away once. “And I’ll do whatever I need to to make us work. You want me to leave London with you? Great. I’m in—”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“You’re Central Park at midnight.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you,” I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. “In another life I would have let you—” Never you mind that I already love her in this one.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Like, just—everything.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I’m glad for her, that she seems okay. I mean, I’m fucking gutted. I’ve fucked up a lot since we broke up but I’m happy for her. As long as she’s happy. She seems happy. Taura says she is.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I love her. That’s it for me. That’s all there is. I love her.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I love him. He’s all I want. He’s all I think about. Everything I didn’t want or believe about love, I want and believe in it with him. And loving him has undone me wide open. But if time has taught me anything it’s that loving anyone when my brother is who he is, is a mistake.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing