“The thing about being hurt badly is that the only person who can make you feel better is the person who hurt you, and so you keep going back and they keep making you better, but then they hurt you… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“And I knew, as clearly as I knew night from day, that this life would destroy me, and I couldn’t live it.” — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“He wouldn’t be looking for deep emotional entanglement or a love that would rock the world. I didn’t want that, either. I was suspicious… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“It was when I was walking that I could best think about my work and had all my ideas.” — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“The thing about being hurt badly is that the only person who can make you feel better is the person who hurt you, and… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“Unrequited love had been all I was capable of. It gave me all the emotional jolts of real love, without ever having to drown… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“I’d mastered this particular skill over the years: sowing the seed of half my desire, then letting him grab and plant the rest.” — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“His routine was fixed. A morning spent reading books, then a sandwich in front of the local lunchtime news and an afternoon of brain-training… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“They were always so pleased to see me, and the happiness it brought me was always tinged with regret, because how much longer would… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
“Mothers are an underwritten subject. There isn’t enough about them, and yet they’re so important. Fathers are too, of course; but that’s different, because… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
