“No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once,… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Striding, finally, into the solitude. You feel as if part of your body has been ripped from you, as if flesh has been torn from flesh. But you feel powerful too, for you're free, after so long; the great burden of uncertainty, and guilt, has gone. But then the anger comes. At all the times in the past you've said… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share
“So, he feels now, that he doesn't have to try. And you want him more than you ever have before.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share
“An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife” — NIkki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“[He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term,… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
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