Joslyn

“I didn’t want to know all these words, charged with urgency and crisis. I didn’t feel like they related to me. Hadn’t I just turned twenty-one? Hadn’t I just left university? Hadn’t my life only just begun? I couldn’t fathom how I had got here so quickly and how I could be expected to make such enormous decisions while I still felt so young. How had this happened?”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“Everything seems interesting when you don't know much about it. And everyone. It's so easy to romanticize another person from a distance, only to be disappointed when you actually get to know her. Because the parts were more interesting than the whole.”
― Therese Bohman, Andromeda

“It’s hard.” “What is?” “Being alive.” “It is,” Arthur agreed. “But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“It’s all so random and unfair – the people we want to be with don’t want to be with us and the people who want to be with us are not the people we want to be with.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material