Dorothy Koomson

“Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.”

“To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.”

“If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.”

“Are you always this honest?""Almost never”

“Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.”

“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”

“But that's the thing about all of this," he says gently but urgently, "we survive. After each known down, each earth shattering blow, we get up again. Even though we walk through hell, and it feels like all we do is walk through hell, we do eventually make it to the otherside. Scarred. Mostly broken. But we survive. And then we start to rebuild ourselves. We're never the same, but we do rebuild ourselves. Because something like this is just another way in which we change. We all have to change.”

“Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.- My Bestfriend's Girl -”

“But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.”

“I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.”

“Putting everything on hold to achieve the one thing you think will make you happy will actually mean that you're miserable along the way to getting there, and when you get there, you might find that the thing wanted doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would. Or worse, you've completely forgotten how to be happy.”

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”

“That's what I like about the modern world: choice. We all choose what we have to live with.”

“I hate him for what he's done, but I still love him for the man he was.”

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

“Every second counts”