“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE.
EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,
To wake up wearing a disguise.
I lie in bed staring at the ceiling,
I don't know who I am
There's little that I can
Fully recognize....
But I'm taking small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm going.
I'm taking small steps
And I don't know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together,
And maybe I'll discover
A clue along the way....
Just to make it through the day and not to get hurt,
Seems about the best that I can hope.
Like coffee stains splattered on your sweatshirt
There isn't any pattern.
Everything's uncertain.
It's difficult to cope....
But I'm taking small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm going.
I'm taking small steps,
And I've forgotten how to play.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together,
And maybe I'll discover,
A clue along the way....
And if someday my small steps bring me near you,
Please don't rush to tell me all you feel.
You don't have to speak for me to hear you.
If I softly sigh,
Look me in the eye
And let me know I'm real....
Then we'll take small steps,
'Cause we won't know where we're going.
We'll take small steps,
And we'll have too much to say.
Small steps,
Hand in hand we'll walk together,
And maybe we'll discover
A clue along the way....
Small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm goin'.
Small steps,
I just take it day to day.
Small steps,
Somehow get myself together,
Then maybe I'll discover
Who I am on the way....”
― Louis Sachar, quote from Small Steps
“Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees”
― Rosamund Hodge, quote from Crimson Bound
“the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”
― Robertson Davies, quote from The Rebel Angels
“The pallbearers lowered the casket onto a metal stand, then moved to their seats. Thomas, James’s brother, slid into the front pew beside Claire, who was dressed in a black suit with her silver hair coiled as tight and rigid as her posture. Phil, James’s cousin, moved into the pew to stand on her other side. He turned and looked at me, dipping his head in acknowledgment. I swallowed, inching back until my calves pressed into the wood bench. Claire”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
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