“So much of the love you feel for a person is dependent on the vast archive of shared memories you can access just by seeing their face or hearing their voice.”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“You’re too hard on yourself,’she said. ‘You can do long-term love. You’ve done it better than anyone I know.’
‘How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.’
‘I’m talking about you and me, ’she said”
― Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
‘How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.’
‘I’m talking about you and me, ’she said”
― Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
“I hated lateness. Being late is a selfish habit adopted by boring people in search of a personality quirk who can't be bothered to take up an instrument”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. — Lily Tomlin”
― Reclaiming Control: Looking Inward to Recalibrate Your Life
― Reclaiming Control: Looking Inward to Recalibrate Your Life
“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
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