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P. 355:
“Shared interests are one of the most misguided considering factors when it comes to choosing a partner. Deciding that someone is a good person, or your soulmate, simply because you both love the music of George Harrison is ridiculous. […] it will not help you weather the various unexpected storms of life together.”

P. 328:
« Unless someone dies, if a relationship goes wrong, you somehow had a part to play in it. […] Men aren’t bad, women aren’t good. People are people and we all make, allow and enable mistakes.”

P. 306:
« It is 1 in 300 people who can have sex with three different strangers a week and it not be because they’re desperately avoiding something. It might be their thoughts, their happiness or their body; it might be loneliness, love, aging or death. »
« You are the sum total of everything that has happened to you until that last slurp of that cup of tea you just put down. »

P. 302: « The more books and stories and blogs I read on sex and love addiction, the more I realised where I had gone so wrong. Dating had become a source of instant gratification, an extension of narcissism, and nothing to do with connection with another person. Time and time again, I had created intensity with a man and confused it with intimacy. »

P. 106:
« He was just ‘a night’, of which I wanted many. An experience, an anecdote, a new face, a memory. He was a piece of advice, a gossipy story and an interesting fact that lodged in my inebriated, unconscious mind, only to be pulled out an regurgitated as my own one day »

P. 79: everything I knew about it love at 21
« Men, on the whole, are not to be trusted. »

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