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1 " Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking. "
― Mhairi McFarlane , It’s Not Me, It’s You
2 " One night with you and he’s turned into a love-letter writer. You must have an incredible pelvic floor. "
3 " Some friendships got longer without getting deeper. "
4 " Uncovering an affair wasn’t a one big fact headline story. It was like Metroyshka dolls, lies inside lies inside lies. "
5 " Very few people voluntarily make things worse for themselves, if they have a choice. You know, there’s the way we all like to think we behave, and then there’s the way we actually do. "
6 " Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this. "
7 " - See those pidgins?- Yes.- Pidgins know more then they´re letting on.- Do they? - Delia said- You think they carried all those messages, and never read any of them? "
8 " I saw the love of my life about to walk out and I thought complete honesty would mean losing you forever. It’s taken me until now to see that complete honesty was my only hope. "
9 " That’s the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless. "
10 " She wasn’t sure about being christened the office’s ‘resident sleuth,’ just because she’d discovered the persistent odour in the ladies lavatory had come from an ‘upper decker’ left in one of the cisterns by a discontented male work experience placement who might have deep-rooted issues with women. "
11 " She’d guessed it was partly borne of a private education. Now she pictured him on yachts, as well as attending Hogwarts. "
12 " He wasn’t attractive, as such. He was blandly, boringly competent at having a face. "
13 " It was fear, cloaked in rationalisations and self-deprecation. "
14 " the bridge, watching from a distance, phone in his hand. She "
15 " Delia thought it was as much use as putting deely-boppers on a crocodile and calling it Miriam "
16 " Every day, you can choose to be happy "
17 " that survival techniques could also mean denial "
18 " Sich zu verlieben, ist eine Sache. Zusammenleben bedeutet, zu streiten, wer vergessen hat, die Spülmaschinentabs zu besorgen "
19 " What happens next? might’ve been the most thrilling thing anyone had ever said to Delia. Someone cared what might happen in a fictional universe she’d made up, simply to entertain herself, as if it had a life of its own. "