Dorothy Koomson > Quotes

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.
- My Bestfriend's Girl -”
― Dorothy Koomson

“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

“I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Chocolate Run

“He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“Every second counts”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life ...”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Marshmallows for Breakfast

“Christmas is a time for families.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“Love is a two-way street.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Cupid Effect

“Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Cupid Effect

“To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Marshmallows for Breakfast

“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

“I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“I liked him, there was no doubt about that. But I wasn't sure if he was good for me or not. I didn't always stick to things that were good for me - positively railed against it sometimes - but he was a different type of not good for me. He did things to my mind and body that I hadn't ever experienced before.
But it wasn't as if I could get him out of my head either: every moment I had free would suddenly be crammed with thoughts of him. His soft lips, the gentle urgency with which they'd kissed me. The intoxicating smell of his skin. His moss-green eyes that would follow everything I said, then would meet my eyes so we could share a smile. It was driving me slowly and pleasurably insane.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Marshmallows for Breakfast

“I sometimes think people can see that I’m defective, that there’s nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there’s nothing to know. I sometimes think I’m this shell and I can’t work out why people like me. And when I’m with strangers it reminds me of that. That I’m insubstantial.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“Double-promise for ever and ever, amen?”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“You're always cutting your nose off to spite your face. I've never met a woman as stubborn as you. Even when it's not in your interests you'll do something to make a point.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before