Harriet Evans Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.

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#3. People don't fall in love with each other because it's convenient. They fall in love because they fall in love, and that's it.

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#4. Darling, you fall in love all the time. You can't run away just because it doesn't fit into your exact romantic dreamworld, you know.

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#5. Why do you want the world to be black and white? It's not.

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#6. WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.

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#7. She knew him so well, the amused, detached tone of his voice, the scroll of his ear, his eyes, his bony frame. Someone whom she always wanted in the room, someone who saw the world the same way, and it had always been like that.

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#8. 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.

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#9. When was the last time she'd actually had a relationship based on reality, instead of some completely invented fantasy she'd written in her head? In her stupid, silly, romantic head.

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

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#11. She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.

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#12. To know yourself is to know where you're from

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#13. What she didn't say was:
"Can I punch both your sisters?"
"How do you cope with this, all the time?"
"Why can't it be the two of us, like it was before?"
And,
"Do you realize I've fallen for you?

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#14. Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.

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#15. I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

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#16. Laura, why do you go around pretending to be Julie Andrews , when you're actually Hyacinth Bucket?

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#17. Life would be easier for some people if it wasn't such a big deal

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#18. She didn't realise it, for a long time, and it wasn't until they were having dinner one evening that he said something that she found funny and she looked at him and thought, Yes. I know you. I know you

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#19. It was completely still, not a sound within or outside. As if it was just the two of them, nothing more in the world, in this room alone.

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#20. 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.

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#21. I like the idea of being with someone forever, being married to them.

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#22. She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even though he assured her he wasn't, she didn't believe him.

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

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#24. She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and it wasn't a happy, easy, joyful thing, it had her in a vice-like grip.

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#25. Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult.

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#26. No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.

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#27. Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only read romance?

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#28. I want to be happy. To make someone else happy. To do my job well, be a good person

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#29. You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

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#30. She knew she could drink up to a certain point, but after that she never did anything interesting like dancing on the bar with her top off or snogging random strangers. She would merely fall over and then probably be sick.

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#31. Are you sure it wouldn't work?" said Jo urgently, in a quiet voice. "Are you sure you don't want to see him again?
Laura wanted to laugh. Those were two totally separate things, weren't they?

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#32. I'm not going to tell you how I think you should live your life, or what I think you should do," said Mary. "Now's not the time. But I will say this: Don't try to paper over things that matter, Laura. The cracks will appear. Maybe not immediately, but they will.

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