Olivia Summers

“You are the sum total of everything that has happened to you up until that last slurp of that cup of tea you just put down.”
― Dolly Alderton

“little did I know how much work it takes to sustain that kind of intimacy with a friend as you get older—it doesn’t just stick around coincidentally.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“yet again like an intruder spying on the typical human experience, an outsider looking in on the normal, which is always just out of his grasp.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Perhaps it was because this was the only way I had learned to get to know someone, with a distance in between us, with enough space for me to curate and filter the best version of myself possible—all the good jokes, all the best sentences, all the songs I knew he’d be impressed by,”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love