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41 " Coldness growing low down in stomach. Heart rate up again, and for all the wrong reasons this time. I’m getting angry. That feeling again, the trapped hateful rage at hearing someone you try so hard to love saying the worst things. "
― Beth O'Leary , The Flatshare (The Flatshare, #1)
42 " You do waste an awful lot of time when you're young. "
43 " Can you text back and tell him that comments like that are the reason womankind cares so much about their measurements? And that by declaring that “most girls would hate that”, he is perpetuating the female body image problem, and setting women up against one another, which is one of the greatest problems feminism faces to this day? "
44 " I . . . I remember being really happy with him,’ I say. ‘As well as being, you know, really bloody miserable. "
45 " Maybe you spent a lot of time being told you couldn’t manage without him,’ Mo says gently. ‘That would explain why you want him back, even when you don’t want him. "
46 " Remind myself that there is no saving of people—people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they’re ready. "
47 " Mr Prior: The art of letter writing. A profoundly . . . intimate thing, a letter, isn’t it? I stare at him suspiciously. Not sure what he’s getting at here. Me: It’s Post-it notes on the fridge, Mr Prior, not hand-delivered letters on scented paper. Mr Prior: Oh, yes, I’m sure you’re right. Absolutely. Post-it notes. No art in that, I’m sure. "
48 " This flatshare. I wish I never done it. Wish I'd never opened up my life like that and let someone else walk in and fill it up. I was doing fine - safe, managing. Now my flat's not mine, it's ours, and when she's gone all I will see is the absence of Tiffin and books about bricklayers and that bloody stupid paisley beanbag. It'll be another room full of what's missing. Just what I didn't want. "
49 " What’s Katherin done? Has she uploaded a picture of her vagina on Twitter, as she threatens to do literally every time I ask her to do another interview at Martin’s request? "
50 " before I know it I have circled my way into the plughole of the Internet "
51 " Recupera-se imenso tempo quando se fica solteiro e não se faz sexo - não apenas o tempo que isso requer, mas o tempo que se gasta a depilar as pernas (...). É mesmo uma vantagem. Claro que há a ausência de um dos melhores aspectos da vida adulta, mas consegue-se fazer muito mais. "
52 " Back when I was with Justin, if I was going out clubbing with Rachel he would always remind me that lots of men see ‘quirky girl’ and think ‘desperate and easy’. He’s right, as per usual. I actually wonder if it’s easier to get laid as a quirky girl than a perky cheerleader type: you’re more approachable, and nobody assumes you’ve already got a boyfriend. "
53 " Gerty is a superb human being in the least obvious way. "
54 " You get tons of time back when you’re single and not having sex – not just the actual time doing it, but the time shaving legs, buying nice underwear, wondering whether all other women get bikini waxes, etc. It’s a real plus. "
55 " How am I feeling? Untethered. Like something’s got dislodged somewhere in my chest and my body doesn’t function quite right any more. Like I’m alone. "
56 " Surprising how terrible it feels. Perhaps you never know how you feel about someone until they agree to marry someone else. "
57 " Sometimes it feels easier to just be the way I was before you. Safer. But...look what you've been able to do. How brave you've been. And that's how I want to be. "
58 " When I kissed him on the cheek I’d planned to make our first proper kiss soft and slow, the kind of kiss you feel in your toes, but when I actually get there it’s clear there’s been way too much waiting and sexy rocky-road-eating for that. This is a proper kiss, the kind that promises very imminent undressing, the kind that generally happens while in the process of stumbling toward a bed. "
59 " te sitúa en la misma categoría que Yo antes de ti, mi exnovio y las cebollas. "
60 " ¿te ha pasado alguna vez que tienes tantas ganas de leer un libro que al final no puedes empezarlo? "