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Petite Anglaise QUOTES

Petite Anglaise QUOTES

1 " I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

2 " Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

3 " You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

4 " One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

5 " When tadpole was born, I spent a sleepless night on the maternity ward gazing intently into her inky, newborn eyes, grappling to come to terms with the indisputable fact that this was an actual person looking back at me, not just a version of Mr Frog, or me, or both, in miniature. From the outset she seemed to know what she wanted, and I realised I could have no inkling of the paths she would choose to follow. But if I watch her life unfold carefully enough, perhaps I will see clear signposts pointing to who or what she will become.
Because when I look backwards, ransacking my own past for clues with the clarity that only hindsight can bring, several defining moments do stand out. Moments charged with significance; snapshots of myself which, if I were to join the dots together, lead me unswervingly to where I stand today. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

6 " I tumbled into the taxi alone, closing the door closed with a dull thud before I could possibly change my mind. Not like this, I remember thinking. Whatever this thing is between us, it could only be tainted and cheapened by a semi-drunken encounter on the night of our first meeting. As the car pulled away I stared back at him. The thought that I might never see him again, that I might never know what it would feel like to be kissed by him, seemed unbearably cruel.
At a crossroads, I had been faced with a choice: two possible versions of my future mapped out ahead of me. But I didn't feel like I had made any sort of decision. All I had done was run away. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

7 " I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so wrapped up in someone that I saw only him, caring not a jot what onlookers might think. I ached with nostalgia for a younger, more responsive me, who seemed to feel things more intensely. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

8 " I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

9 " Oh yes, We've all danced to this particular tune at one time in our lives. In my experience, the majority of women are hopeless romantics, believing that, in time, he'll realise how wonderful we are, and fall in love with us.... "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

10 " Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it? "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

11 " The reason for my discomfort was simple. Our story - however romantic I could make it sound in my head - sometimes sounded a little tawdry in the re-telling. There was no escaping the fact that I'd been living with the father of my child when we met; that I'd cheated on him, then left; that what James and I now shared was born out of the ruins of another relationship. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

12 " I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

13 " Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little.
I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

14 " I do still love you. I don't love you enough to be able to give you the things we dreamed about and planned. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

15 " Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

16 " We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere - but it was proving impossible. Banter was the only register we seemed capable of and without it we'd lost all means of communication. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

17 " Any new French female acquaintance would most likely have held herself aloof, eyeing you suspiciously until she had assessed your character and whether or not you posed a threat. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

18 " Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.  "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

19 " Love' was a word I had cheapened with overuse over the years, bleeding it dry of meaning by saying it purely from force of habit, or to convince myself of something of which I was far from sure. I wanted to wait until the words started to feel meaningful again before I used them. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise

20 " Everywhere was filled with painful, jarring reminders of what I'd lost: an elderly couple sitting on a bench, gnarly, arthritic fingers interlaced; a handsome young man in a baseball cap whispering something in his pregnant wife's ear, his arm draped protectively around her shoulders. "

― Catherine Sanderson , Petite Anglaise