“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“Christmas is a time for families.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“I sometimes think people can see that I’m defective, that there’s nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there’s nothing to know. I sometimes think I’m this shell and I can’t work out why people like me. And when I’m with strangers it reminds me of that. That I’m insubstantial.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“Double-promise for ever and ever, amen?”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“It might not be pleasant for the listener, it might disempower and unsettle the witness to a breakdown, but crying was good. Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that buildup of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“Everything, good or bad, was down to me.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
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― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“That’s what came from having romance in your soul, I suppose. You believed in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“I could grow to like this man, I realized. I could grow to like him a lot.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
“Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.”
― Dorothy Koomson, quote from My Best Friend's Girl
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“Everything was like a business deal to him. Approach from different angles until you find one that works. "Go on then," I said, rolling my eyes. "Make your pitch. But remember, the clock is ticking." "Dinner." "Dinner? As in, the two of us?" He nodded. "That sounds dangerously close to a date," I replied. "Wouldn't that be breaking the rules?" He smiled ruefully. "Maybe, but I don't believe you've given me much choice." "Of course I have. You could just leave me alone instead." "I don't consider that an option at all.”
― Maya Cross, quote from Locked
“Forgive me, I have yet to introduce myself.” The Human spread his arms expansively and bowed in his chair. He made grand gestures at his stall full of paper, ink, charts, and graphing tools, like they were his subjects, and he their king.
“I am Enoch Michelson, adept cartographer, recluse, and the lord and master of a tiny, dark corner of Patrician’s Market. I am a knower of many useless things, and a knower of a few things that matter. Finder of lost items. Gossipmonger.” His smile grew even slyer. “And an informant for a little band of Majiski assassins.”
― S.G. Night, quote from Attrition: the First Act of Penance
“Nothing about sex ever shocks women. At least, men’s kind of sex.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Super-Cannes
“Perfect. Then imagine that you started reading the most interesting and fascinating comic book ever created. You fell in love with some characters, you hated others. Endless plots unfolded and every one was an emotional page-turner you couldn't read fast enough because you had to know what was going to happen next. You felt like the world would end if you didn't find out how the story ended. But then you get to the end and there was no end. The author didn't finish it. You don't know if good or evil won. You don't know if the guy got the girl. You don't know any of the answers to all your important questions”
― Karen Amanda Hooper, quote from Taking Back Forever
“I don't really care for fiction."
"How can you not? The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives. Non-fiction doesn't have that power- it doesn't change you like fiction does."
"Change you?" He raises his brow.
"Yes, change you. If you aren't affected somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren't reading the right book. I would like to think that every novel I've read has become a part of me, created who I am, in a sense.”
― Anna Todd, quote from After We Collided
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