Karen Balint

“Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and the sentences twisting around my mind are enough. I am fizzing and frothing and buzzing and exploding. I'm bubbling over and burning up. My early-morning walks and my late-night baths are enough. My loud laugh at the pub is enough. My piercing whistle, my singing in the shower, my double-jointed toes are enough. I am a just-pulled pint with a good, frothy head on it. I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm-up act, the main event, and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is- just me and the trees and the sky and the seas- I know now that that's enough.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Breakups get harder with every year you get older. When you're young, you lose a boyfriend. As you get older, you lose a life together.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“A reminder that no matter what we lose, no matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you forever.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love