So what? We can play safe, or we can take the biggest risk of our lives and end up with the...most perfect, wonderful happiness.
Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham | Book Review
So what? We can play safe, or we can take the biggest risk of our lives and end up with the...most perfect, wonderful happiness.
We may not all have a great start, you know, but it's where you end up that counts.
See, you just don't understand women the way I do, J.D. They want it all: a career, apple martinis, financial independence, great shoes; But at the same time - and this they'll never admit - they are drawn to patriarchal men who are dominant and controlling. That's the essence of the Darcy complex. He may be an asshole, but he's an asshole that gets the girl in the end.
Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix?
Falling in love with anyone was a gamble.
Any society needs a certain amount of law: Too much gives you tyranny, but too little gives you chaos
You're beautiful, every part of you. I love your hair, the way it looks, the way it feels. I love touching it, smelling it. I love the way you wrinkle your nose when you laugh. It makes me laugh too, every time. And I love watching you eat. Sometimes you can't shovel it in fast enough, but when you get interested in a conversation, you forget there's anything in front of you. God knows. I can'e even talk about that without wanting you.
"Sleep, my love." "You sleep too." "No. Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream."
There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart.
Whenever people talk about dying, everyone always gets so hung up on the very last thing that flashes before your eyes. The last thought. The last memory. That last feeling, or kiss, or fight, or song on the radio - whatever significant LAST thing that's somehow supposed to encapsulate your entire life in a single moment, all wrapped up in a big, blinding flash of perfect, final light.