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“I would have done anything to keep this man in my life. The love I felt was aggressive and fraught—I loved him with panic and passion. I didn’t fall in love; love fell on me. Like a ton of bricks from a great height.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“(Eventually, Gordon organized for an exterminator to come in. An East End geezer with, ironically, the surname “Mouser.” When he laid down some traps, I asked him if there was a more humane way of dealing with the problem. “No,” he said, his arms folded in dismay. “OK,” I replied. “It’s just that I’m vegetarian.” “Well, you don’t have to eat it,” he replied.)”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Many times, I would invent a person in my head and create our chemistry as if writing a screenplay, and by the time we’d meet again in real life, I’d be crushingly let down.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“It was like fiction. It was magic and it was life.”
― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft