Harriet Evans Quotes

Source: Happily Ever After

“Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.”

Moving On Heartache Regrets

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“It's just odd being a guest at the wedding. When you dreamed about it for so long, even if you we're a different person, and it was years ago. Sounds so stupid. I was stupid.”

Nostalgia Moving On Heartache

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“She, who had never liked weddings, had allowed herself this fantasy. Her wedding day to Rory. A pretty church in Sussex, festooned with spring flowers. Rows of relatives, and her, Elle, floating down the aisle in cream silk to 'The arrival of queen Sheba', with eyes only for him... Rory, slightly rumpled, slightly scared, her love, her only one. But that wasn't how it had turned out. She knew she was OK, watching him, in fact she was happy for him, happy for Libby. But she couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy for the girl she'd been, who'd loved him so much. She was still dreaming somewhere, hoping this day would come.”

Nostalgia Moving On Heartache

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.”

Love Life Wisdom Break Ups

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.”

Love Truth Timing

Book:A Hopeless Romantic

Source: A Hopeless Romantic

“No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.”

Love True

Book:A Hopeless Romantic

Source: A Hopeless Romantic

“Since being back in London everything seemed greyer, but clearer. She couldn't explain it. The strangest thing was she couldn't recall her New York self. She wanted that part of herself back, but she couldn't remember what it was like to be that Elle. She would catch a whiff of it, like the snatch of a song that still won't lead you to the chorus, and then it would be gone.”

Growing Up Moving On Changing

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.”

Moving On

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done last weekend with their boyfriends, to hold his hand as they walked down the street, to be able to smile in public at him, not this controlled, agonisingly formal behaviour. It struck her, this week in particular, that she was completely isolated. She couldn't talk to him, she couldn't talk to her friends, and she didn't know when that would change. And she couldn't do anything about it; she was weak, because she loved him too much, not that that was weakness, but - she was powerless.”

Alone No Control Tricky Situations

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot." "About what? You worry too much, about everything. You're to hard on yourself." "I was wrong about Rory -" "You were twenty-five, twenty-six! Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, its a mistake not to be.”

Love Growing Up Making Mistakes

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.”

To Do Lists

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

“I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on”

Women Relationships Marriage

Book:Happily Ever After

Source: Happily Ever After

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