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“remember you already have an abundance of love, just not the romantic kind. This kind of love might not kiss you in the rain or propose marriage. But it will listen to you, inspire and restore you. It will hold you when you cry, celebrate when you’re happy andwhen you’re drunk. You have so much to gain and learn from this kind of love. You can carry it with you for ever. Keep it as close to you as you can.”

“Love should not be about aligning your life with another person, not a place of make-believe you can escape to where you always feel high, are the star of the show and unquestionably adored.”

“Inside we are all seventeen with red lips”

“A much underrated and incredibly simple consideration factor… is how much you love their company…. a couple need to be really really good friends.”

“Shared interests are one of the most misguided considering factors when it comes to choosing a partner… will not help you weather the various unexpected storms of life together.”

“But I feel content; grateful for every morning that I wake up with another day on this earth and another chance to do good and feel good and make others feel good too.”

“I hadn’t contemplated that ‘Class of 2009’ might be the punchline to a joke one day.”

“To lower your heart rate and drift off on nights when sleep feels impossible, dream of all the adventures that lie ahead of you and the distances you’ve travelled so far. Wrap your arms tightly round your body and, as you hold yourself, hold this one thought in your head: I’ve got you.”

“It is no person’s job to be the sole provider of your happiness. Sorry.”

“More often than not, the love someone gives you is a reflection of the love you give yourself. If you can’t treat yourself with kindness, care, and patience, chances are someone else won’t either.”

“Love is a pretty quiet thing.”
“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing my, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something by you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”

“It’s completely ok to focus on yourself…. But it’s also completely not ok to be in a relationship if you know that you want to be in your own.”

“You are the sum total of everything that has happened to you up until that last slurp of that cup of tea you just put down.”

“Their stories had nothing to do with me anymore, I didn’t need their attention. I felt like I was finally jogging along on my own path, gathering my own pace and momentum.”

“I have to press stop now.”
“But I have to self-protect.”

“‘You have to live. You don’t have a choice. You move forward or you go under.’ “

-Dolly talks about moving on and handling loss and grief

“‘It may seem that life is difficult at times but it’s really as simple as breathing in and out… Rip open hearts with your fury and tear down egos with your modesty. Be the person you wish you could be, not the person you feel you are doomed to be. Let yourself run away with your feelings.”

“”When I’m done with this cancer, I’m going to kick the world in the arse and be the best thing anyone’s ever seen.’ I mean who can reject me, I’ll have beaten cancer. Everything else is easy.””

“I looked at the small gaps in between all their bodies and imagined the places that lay between them; the stories they had written together; the memories and the language and the habits and the trust and the future dreams they would have discussed while drinking wine late at night on the sofa.”

“imagine you could go into a room and press a big red button that would end your relationship with no fuss. No break up conversation, no tears, no picking up your things from his house. Would you do it? If the answer is yes, you have to break up with them.”

“On long, lonely nights when your fears crawl over your brain like cockroaches and you get to sleep, dream of the time you were loved”

“The invisible dimension created from the history and love and future we shared for this one person. It was then I knew everything had changed: we had transitioned. We hadn’t chosen each other. But we were family.”

-when Dolly realised it’s not a competition and that love can be shared, in fact, love can be stronger when shared

“you can’t forget what exact weight you were every week of every month that made up that time. You can try as hard as as you can to block it out, but sometimes, on very difficult days, it feels like you’ll never be as euphoric as that ten year old licking lurid jam off her fingertips, not ever again”