Alex

“Em, we've known each other five or six years now, but two years properly, as, you know, 'friends', which isn't that long but I think I know a bit about you and I think I know what your problem is. Here it is. I think you're scared of being happy, Emma. I think you think that the natural way of things is for your life to be grim and grey and dour and to hate your job, hate where you live, not to have success or money or God forbid a boyfriend. In fact, I think I'll go further and say that I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.”
― David Nicholls

“I’m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I don’t totally understand it, why his pride in me matters. But it does. It matters.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I don’t want it to hurt every time he lets me down.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story