Alexandra Shuttleworth

“Dad doesn't know his clothes or shoe size because Mum buys all that stuff. He doesn't floss, he doesn't exercise, he doesn't 'watch' what he eats. He just exists. On the off chance his body is a topic of conversation, it's a joke.”
― Lucinda Price, All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

“And even though I gave you a hard time for al­ways try­ing to for al­ways try­ing to im­press your dad, I ac­tu­ally found it very adorable be­cause it made me see the child in you and the teenager in you, and if I could time-travel to any­where in his­tory, I swear, Jen, the only place I’d want to go is to the house where you grew up and hug you and tell you how beau­ti­ful and clever and funny you are. That you are spec­tac­u­lar even with­out all your sports trophies and mu­sic cer­tifi­cates and in­cred­i­ble grades and Ox­ford ac­cep­tance.

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I love you. I always will. I'm glad we met.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“and you know, I actually love it here, even if it frustrates the hell out of me, I'm not sure I want to become a foreigner anywhere else

so try it out like a new outfit that may or may not suit, life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand”
― Bernardine Evaristo

“I was happy to go. There I could have a fresh start. I would stop messing around with men. I would stop grieving so fiercely. I would stop raging over the family I used to have. I would be a writer who lived in New York City. I would walk around wearing cool boots and an adorable knitted hat.
It didn't go that way. I was who I was: the same woman who pulsed beneath the bruise of her old life, only now I was somewhere else.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail