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“There’s something about your mother’s voice that nobody else can replicate.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“You’re never too old for your mum to care about you,”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“she peered round that curtain I felt as if my heart were about to burst. That feeling, when only your mother will do, never really goes away, and as she whispered in my ear that everything would be all right,”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Sometimes things happen and you have no way of understanding them. You try to find a reason to justify it, but there isn’t always an answer. It’s just life.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“I remember the Sunday morning that she had woken me up, with tears streaming down her face, to tell me that the Princess had died. We sat in front of the TV all day, along with millions of others, praying that someone had got it wrong.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“My mum was here. Everything would be okay.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Perhaps it was all part of that in-built defense mechanism that women seem to be born with, that bogs us down and keeps us from saying the things we really want to say. Believing that holding back somehow keeps us one step ahead, making us the better, stronger gender. Why, then, did pretending to be someone I wasn’t leave me feeling weak and bereft?”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“loved him. I don’t know why, because I did. Perhaps it was all part of that in-built defense mechanism that women seem to be born with, that bogs us down and keeps us from saying the things we really want to say. Believing that holding back somehow keeps us one step ahead, making us the better, stronger gender. Why,”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“It was just a beautiful meeting of two people who were utterly in tune with each other.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“There’s something about your mother’s voice that nobody else can replicate. That takes you back to school, when you were little and waiting in the nurse’s office for her to come and pick you up.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Sorry,”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“by the time I was on that tiny chair behind the screen, all I wanted was my mum: to take away both my physical and emotional pain.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“It’s exhausting trying to be the person you think you want to be, when all you really want is to be happy being the person you are.”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“I'll have you know that I'm the cream of the crop in my industry. One of the highest ranking performers in the field.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Whether my injury would be sufficient to warrant calling her. But I so needed to feel safe, it was a risk I was prepared to take. It felt like hours before she arrived, though I knew she was there even before I saw her. I just sensed her, and when she peered round that curtain I felt as if my heart was about to burst. That feeling, when only your mother will do, never really goes away, and as she whispers in my ear that everything will be all right, my heart breaks”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“won’t be a”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Perhaps if she’d known then what she knows now, she’d think again, because all of a sudden, time isn’t so infinite. It does run out, for all of us. Days run into weeks, and months run into years, and we find that the twenty-year-old we thought we’d always be, was lost decades ago.”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“new”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“It is if you do anything about it, but for now, it’s locked up in a lovely little fantasy room that we’re all allowed to have and like to look into, but never actually enter. That’s the difference.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Three glasses of Pinot Grigio in, and it was getting worse. It felt like they had their own private club, one which I didn't have a membership to.”
― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman

“Trust is a funny thing; it takes such a long time to build, yet it’s broken in a second. She shouldn’t trust me—it will be her undoing.”
― Sandie Jones, The First Mistake

“I took a sip of wine and could hear my taste buds thanking me as the cold liquid teased them before hitting the back of my throat. What is it with that first taste that can never be replicated?”
― Sandie Jones

“they never went on vacation to anywhere that wasn’t as nice as their home.”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“There’s only one defining juncture that, depending on which path you take, will determine the rest of your”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“Trust is a funny thing; it takes such a long time to build, yet it’s broken in a second.”
― Sandie Jones, The First Mistake

“Trust is a funny thing; it takes such a long time to build, yet it’s broken in a second.

She shouldn’t trust me—it will be her undoing.”
― Sandie Jones, The First Mistake

“incredulously,”
― Sandie Jones, The First Mistake

“The realization that one man she loved would do that to her is hard enough to take. Now that she's faced with the prospect that both of them have makes her question what SHE'S doing wrong. All she's ever done is loved them the best way she knows how. How could that not be enough?”
― Sandie Jones, The First Mistake

“I get that, but the longer you worry about what might happen to them, the less time you’ve got to enjoy yourself and live the best possible life you can live.”
― Sandie Jones, The First Mistake

“Perhaps if she’d known then what she knows now, she’d think again, because all of a sudden, time isn’t so infinite. It does run out, for all of us. Days run into weeks, and months run into years, and we find that the twenty-year-old we thought we’d always be, was lost decades ago. “Here”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip