Tammy

“For my whole life I’ve felt like a rickety boat, sailing on stormy seas, always on the verge of capsizing or sinking, but as he holds my hand, the boat stills and the sea turns placid. When he lets go, I feel strangely unmoored. I fight the urge to grab hold of him again just to regain some ballast.”
― Sarah Alderson, The Cabin in the Woods

“But two years on, replaying the moment in my head and knowing what I now knew, I realised I’d seen the truth that day. Nick hadn’t wanted a family, not one that included me, anyway. He’d just wanted a baby.”
― Jess Ryder, The Ex-Wife

“Sometimes, we do things we don’t feel good about to survive. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.” His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn’t cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.”
― Robyn Harding, The Arrangement

“And perhaps it is different for men than women. We don’t lose interest in sex the way women do. At least, I thought that’s how it was. Given what you’ve just told me, maybe it’s not that you don’t like sex, you just don’t like it with me.”
― Lucy Dawson, White Lies