Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course – and the bastards were right.
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin’s cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.” Claire (Watermelon)
…as you know, I don’t believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs…
Honestly, if you’re looking for love and you’re not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There’s a point to the pain. There’s a reason and a direction.
Waiting to be ‘better’ is the wrong approach. It’s learning to live with it.
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.
I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn’t know what or where home was.
You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
You’ve recognised a fundamental feature of an addict’s life. Maintaining your habit is so important you’ve no real interest in anything else.
No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.
He’s a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what’s he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
Because you promised? But you’ve promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
He didn’t even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.
If he says he doesn’t love you anymore and does love this other woman, you’ve got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won’t, but either way, you’ve got to live through this.
As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can’t get over it, Get over talking about it.
Don’t make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don’t throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.
I’ve been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I’d have.