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“Men don’t usually leave cosy relationships unless they’ve found someone who wears ridiculously short skirts and stockings.”
― Carole Matthews, With or Without You

“Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices I've made in life. While I may not remember all the details, the stories continue to exert a quiet influence on me.”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“Life is too complicated and expansive to be judged solely by the career you have. You could be unhappy doing something you liked, just as it was possible to do what you didn't like but derive happiness from something entirely different. Life is mysterious and complex. Work plays an important role in life, but it isn't solely responsible for our happiness or misery”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“Every one of us is like an island; alone and lonely. It's not a bad thing. Solitude sets us free, just as loneliness brings depth to our lives. In the novels I like, the characters are like isolated islands. In the novels I love, the characters used to be like isolated islands, until their fates gradually intertwined; the kind of stories where you whisper, 'You were here?' and a voice answers, 'Yes, always.”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“The worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end , the whole sum of parts which adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I’m not sure I want to get married anyway. There’s more to life than washing shirts and changing nappies”
― Cathy Sharp, A Daughter's Dream

“You know that feeling when you read a good book, and you’re totally transported to the world within those pages? Your imagination has travelled there – and yet your body is not fooled: it knows you haven’t left the sofa.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“Why are we the ones who are always told not to give men the wrong idea when they are the ones who need to control themselves. It seems that just by being a woman you’re giving men the wrong idea!”
― Ginny Bell, The Dover Cafe at War

“Look into your heart – and go after what you really want.”
― Sophie Kinsella

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal.”
― Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

“Sometimes being scared is good. It makes you more careful.”
― Julie Caplin, The Little Café in Copenhagen

“Without Sally he would have given up on himself. He needed that dependence, he needed that love, that feeling of being needed. Before Sally he had never known what it was to love.”
― Katerina Diamond, The Teacher

“Sally had made him feel like he was worth loving. She had shown him that the world wasn’t entirely hateful.”
― Katerina Diamond, The Teacher

“He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King.”
― Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

“I would make a strong case for the argument that every adult on this earth is sitting on a bench waiting for their parents to pick them up, whether they know it or not. I think we wait until the day we die.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“I hated lateness. Being late is a selfish habit adopted by boring people in search of a personality quirk who can't be bothered to take up an instrument”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“I think something happens in your thirties where you slightly let go of this idea of the perfect career. I have so much fun outside of work, maybe it’s enough that it’s just fine. It pays okay, I get on with my colleagues. At the end of the day, it’s just ye olde day job.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Love is homesickness,” I once read in a book. The author’s therapist had told her that the pursuit of love in adulthood is just an expression of missing our mums and dads—that we look for intimacy and romance because we never stop wanting parental security and attention. We simply displace it.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Men of our generation often disappear once they’ve got a woman to say ‘I love you’ back to them, because it’s almost like they’ve completed a game. Because they’re the first boys who grew up glued to their PlayStations and Game Boys, they weren’t conditioned to develop any sense of honour and duty in adolescence the way our fathers were. PlayStations replaced parenting. They were taught to look for fun, complete the fun, then get to the next level, switch players or try a new game. They need maximum stimulation all the time. ‘I love you’ is the relationship equivalent of Level 17 of Tomb Raider 2 for a lot of millennial men.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“They weren’t ready to be adults, to make any choices, let alone promises. They preferred a relationship to be virtual and speculative, because when it was virtual and speculative, it could be perfect. Their girlfriend didn’t have to be human. They didn’t have to think about plans or practicalities, they weren’t burdened with the concern of another person’s happiness.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Time and time again I observed that most men think a good conversation is a conversation where they have imparted facts or information that others didn’t already know, or dispensed an interesting anecdote, or given someone tips or advice on an upcoming plan or generally left their mark on the discourse like a streak of piss against a tree trunk.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Was it a game you wanted to complete? You met a woman who had her life together, and you wanted to see if you could pull it apart? You wanted to know that you could get her to fall in love with you, say all the things you wanted her to say, do all the things you wanted her to do, then the game was finished and you could turn it off?”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“That’s why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“she is still better known than most living movie stars, most world leaders, and most television personalities. The surprise is that she rarely has been taken seriously enough to ask why that is so.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“Now that more women are declaring our full humanity - now that we are more likely to be valued for our heads and hearts, not just the bodies that house them - we also wonder: Could we have helped Marilyn survive?”
― Gloria Steinem

“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I learned about sex and love the hard way. That men will take what they want and feel no debt, that some people only want one piece of you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“When he was done, he got up. I pulled my dress down. And he said "if you want to go back down to your friends, that's alright.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“When he was done, he got up. I pulled my dress down. And he said "if you want to go back down to your friends, that's alright.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six