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“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Once you get to my age, you will learn that you can take a lot of wrong turns and still end up in the right place.” “I don’t”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Don’t you understand how condescending it is,” he said, “for someone you love not to tell you about the biggest thing happening in their life, because they don’t want to bother you? Because they think you can’t handle it?” “I just wanted to leave you out of it. Because I do love you. You know that. I’m always saying it.” “That’s not an act of love, Rache. It’s an act of…I don’t know, ambivalence. It’s an act of distance.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident