Gosia’s Reviews > One for the Road > Status Update

“It’s funny how you could push feelings aside for weeks, yet the moment you knew exactly how you wanted your life to go, waiting another minute for it to begin suddenly felt unbearable.”

“It’s taken me months to get to the point where I feel like I can breathe again. This time, I need to learn to swim for myself.”
“I think you’re learning to swim beautifully, Isla, love. Accepting help doesn’t mean you’re drowning.”

“Everyone’s a mess, and we’re all just praying we make it through the day without people realising.”

“Sometimes I feel like I’m holding the weight of the world on my shoulders, and somehow, I’m holding it . . . wrong.”

“I felt like a sixteen-year-old girl again, trying to read between the lines of the lyrics my crush posted as his social media status.”

“Maybe Heather was right, I just needed to have sex. Because a wet curl on the head of a man who’d been outwardly rude to me for months shouldn’t have tied my stomach in knots.”

“If my twenty-eight years of life had taught me anything, it’s that men could be selfish in ways women rarely could be.”

“As it was, he made my stomach fizz like a can of shaken Coke. Could you imagine how bad it would be if I actually liked him? I’d never survive with my dignity intact.
We were too different. He was clever, successful and serious. Whereas my only goal was to make it through the day without sobbing in the bathroom.”

oh the texts were so cute!

I love how it’s looking out to be delicious slow burn instead of lusting after each other from the second chapter!

„I was never sure if my parents were happy, exactly, or simply a product of the time and place, where marriage and babies were the norm and divorce wasn’t a consideration.”