"You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient."
- Harriet Evans
"Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be."
"WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire."
"Elle Remembered Yorkshire road and the flat he shared with Caitlin and their daughter, and she almost stopped and turned back, and then she hardened herself against it. It's his problem if he wants to..."
"To know yourself is to know where you're from"
"She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self."
"Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s like a kind of living death. To wake up every morning and know you are still here. To have that brief..."
"She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done last weekend with their boyfriends, to hold his hand as they walked down the street, to be able to sm..."
"She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision."
"The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot.""About what? You worry too much, about everything. You're to hard on yourself.""I was wrong about Rory -""..."