The strain of pretending everything was normal had been agonizing. How was she going to keep this up for the next week… month… year?
The future had started to seem like a challenge he could conquer.
Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn’t summon up the energy to make them.
Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else...
She’d got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excus...
She was determined to make amends. Her old life was behind her and the new one had begun.
Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.
Maybe he should kill himself and put them all out of their misery.
Instinct told him that all he could do for the moment was stay cool and play the waiting game. It wouldn’t be easy but he’d manage it if it killed him.
If it was sympathy she was after, Ginny Holland might have known she’d come to the wrong place. Then again, it was early on a bright but blustery Saturday morning in October and her options were limit...
All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life.
Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it...
Why would you want to leave?’ ‘I’ve just made up my mind. It’s the best thing to do. Lots of people move to London.’ ‘Lots of people living in London wish they could move to Cornwall.’ Tears were now...
Why do men think they can get away with it? Because they’re men.
What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?
The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over t...
Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.
It's me, though. It's my fault for being like this. I'm going to have to get used to it.
If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.
But you were the one who came to see it! You said it was just what you were looking for! Her voice rising—and not in an I-fancy-you way—Ginny said, You said it was perfect! He blinked, nonplussed. It...