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“It will always be this way, I've come to realize. You are never behind me, Susie. You are never something that happened. You are always alongside me.”

Loss Grief Sadness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“Her body is a vacated premises. It's like turning up to a house you know well, and finding it emptied and stripped to the fittings.”

Loss Grief Sadness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“There's shock and then there's grief, and there's the simple tiring unending chore of life afterward. These are all different things, I've learned.”

Loss Grief Sadness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“They will live on in your hearts, and in the way you find yourself weeping like a freak in Birds Baker, because you inadvertently recalled how much she loved an Elephant's Foot pastry.”

Loss Grief Sadness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“How can all these people be living, how can everything be carrying on as usual, if Susie is dead?”

Love Loss Grief Sadness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“Students from the nearby college pass by, chattering and whooping with laughter, as if this isn't an abhorrent thing to be doing. As if it hasn't happened.”

Love Loss Grief Sadness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“Thinking about how Finlay never abandoned me, whether it was on bike rides as children, or in hotel rooms as grown-ups.”

Love At First Sight

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“You make a nice mum,’ I mumbled. ‘I always hoped one day the woman of my dreams would say those words to me,’ he said, ruffling my vomity hair. I would’ve poked him in the ribs in reprisal, but I lacked the motor skills.”

Love At First Sight

Author:Mhairi McFarlane

“Yeah. Pull no punches. Why the fuck should you? Why is it your fault that your worst day was that bad?”

Humor Inspirational Attitude Bad Days

Book:Don't You Forget About Me

Source: Don't You Forget About Me

“London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day”

Home Travel London City

Book:Here's Looking at You

Source: Here's Looking at You

“And--there is no next, stupid. That's the point. Someone has gone, forever, and you have to stop waiting for them to come back. Without realizing it, you are stuck on pause, as if their not being here might change.”

Love Inspiration Loss Grief Sad

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“The moment where you consider giving in, or do give in, that's the moment you torture yourself about for the rest of your life. That's the moment where you think it happened to you because you are a bad and weak person, who wanted it really. When in fact, it's about survival. And whichever choice you make, it wasn't really a choice at all.”

Self Love Self Discovery Rape Survivor Rape Recovery

Book:Don't You Forget About Me

Source: Don't You Forget About Me

“It might only be a Domino's pizza, but the act of choosing toppings feels so frivolous. It's like a statement that life goes on. You're not ready for that statement.”

Loss Grief Griefss

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“The strangest thing, Eve, is you don't know how to talk about what to have for tea.”

Loss Grief Saddness

Book:Just Last Night

Source: Just Last Night

“Everyone's interesting," Elliot said. "Acting 101." - "They're definitely not. Advertising 202.”

Society Mhairi Mcfarlane

Book:Who’s That Girl?

Source: Who’s That Girl?

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.”

Life Inspirational Decisions

Book:You Had Me At Hello

Source: You Had Me At Hello

“Isn't it weird how we make big decisions in life based on the strangest, most random things?”

Zoe

Book:You Had Me At Hello

Source: You Had Me At Hello

“His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway.”

Rain Manchester

Book:You Had Me At Hello

Source: You Had Me At Hello

“I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans.”

Manchester

Book:You Had Me At Hello

Source: You Had Me At Hello

“Seems once was enough to infect me. From then on you've been lying dormant, like a virus. Or an incurable chronic condition that flares up from time to time.' A long pause, where life transforms from black-and-white to colour. 'I'm eczema?' Ben beams. 'Eczema of the heart. That's it. Psoriasis of the soul.”

Love In Love In Love With My Friend

Book:You Had Me At Hello

Source: You Had Me At Hello

“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”

Time University

Book:You Had Me At Hello

Source: You Had Me At Hello

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