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61 " Algo hay que reconocerle a la desesperación: te hace tener mucha más amplitud de miras. "
― Beth O'Leary , The Flatshare (The Flatshare, #1)
62 " Kay: Bom, e a Tiffy está disponível?Eu: Ela é uma pessoa, não uma sala, Kay. "
63 " Life is never simple. "
64 " I stop dead in my tracks again; this time a businessman on a scooter runs over my foot. "
65 " Relationships like that stop being about ‘voluntarily’ very quickly. There’s lots of ways someone can make you stay with them, or think you want to. "
66 " doesn’t seem at all creepy or murderous, though actually if you look at a picture with that idea in mind everyone starts to look like an axe-wielding killer, so I try to put the thought out of my head. "
67 " Recordo a mim mesmo que não é possível salvar os outros - as pessoas só podem salvar-se a si mesmas. O melhor que podemos fazer é ajudá-las quando estão prontas. "
68 " - Tiffany Moore - diz ele - tenho toda a intenção de continuar a olhar para ti assim por muitas luas vindouras. "
69 " My sexual frustration cannot be stopping you sleeping,” I say, conceding the point. “If that was possible, nobody would ever have been able to sleep in Victorian times. "
70 " Tiffy: How do you choose them? The exceptions?Shrug, uncomfortable.Tiffy: Really. Seriously. Why me?Me: Um. Well. I suppose . . . there are some people I just feel comfortable with. Not many. But you were one before I even met you. "
71 " the fact I am familiar with most of her shoes? Sounds extremely creepy. "
72 " I chuckle, nuzzling into his chest, breathing him in. "You smell like home," I tell him after a moment."You are home," he says simply. "The bed, the flat..."He pauses, the way he always does when he's looking for enough words for something big."It was never home until you were there, Tiffy. "
73 " I was trying so hard. All the time dredging up the worst memories, the endless conversations with Mo, the counselling. I was trying. But I guess Leon thought I was too broken to fix myself. "
74 " She smiles up at me and I feel something shift in my chest. Hard to describe. Maybe like a lock clicking into place. "
75 " It can take people time to notice and process emotional abuse. "
76 " humillación es como el moho: ignóralo y todo se volverá verdoso y apestoso. "
77 " A vida costuma ser simples, mas a gente não nota até que ela se torna absurdamente complicada, "
78 " there are some people I just feel comfortable with. "
79 " Look,” he says, “have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?” “Oh, totally. All the time—if I had a grain of self-restraint I never would’ve been able to read the last Harry Potter book. The anticipation was painful. You know, like, what if it doesn’t live up to the last ones? What if it’s not what I hope it’ll be? "
80 " I want her to mother me, not the other way around, "