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1 " You shouldn’t minimise moments, Alice. Our whole life is made up of them. It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details. "
― Carol Mason , After You Left
2 " everyone you meet loves something, longs for something and has lost something. "
3 " If you want to be in love, you have to accept that you run the risk of having your heart broken in such a way that it’s almost impossible to mend. Some of us can live quite happily without that wretched experience. But some of us can’t. We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.’ Evelyn "
4 " The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details. "
5 " I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how silence is a sound of its own. "
6 " That grey area between what we know and what we think we know. "
7 " You will get past this. Sometimes, you just have to face what you fear the most. It’s shitty, but it’s life. "
8 " It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details. "
9 " Anyone who judges us secretly envies us. Anyone who thinks they’ve done it all better than we have is lying to the one person we should never, ever, lie to – themselves. "
10 " Those are the best memories, you know. Memories of things that end when they should. Always remember. "
11 " Time advances, we have opportunities for better education, better jobs, a greater say in national politics, yet the love of the right man is still the thing we want more than anything else, even though we’re supposed to be more self-sufficient than that. "
12 " You have to have the grace to let him go, and to live with his choices. Don't be a clinger. Don't fight to keep him, because you won't win. "
13 " We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground. "
14 " off. I would have been a very lucky man if I’d managed to get "
15 " I am endlessly astonished how I can be hit so unexpectedly by something I already know. I’ve "
16 " The need for answers is suddenly greater than my ability to handle them – perhaps I will just disappear into never knowing. Perhaps it’ll be easier. "
17 " had to create a false truth: that taking another woman’s husband is okay, especially if perhaps you have succeeded where she has failed: in showing him that you need him more.’ ‘So "
18 " squirt hair product into the palm of my hand. All the other questions rush at me now, as I tip my head back and let it hang there. How "
19 " It’s just such a monstrous thing to do,’ Sally says now, looking at my food. ‘I just don’t know what kind of person would abandon his wife on their honeymoon, halfway across the world! "
20 " Envy is the most futile of emotions. Sometimes, you are envying an idea you have about someone, but you’re actually envying fiction. "