21 Quotes by Freya North

In life we have to size up the chances and calculate the possible risks and our ability to deal with them and then make our plans accordingly.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.

His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me. 

It’s not a persons mistakes which define them – it’s the way they make amends.

His version of ‘real’ love isn’t sufficient for me, I don’t think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn’t love – not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit – desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

That’s the beauty about love. It’s not about give-and-take – it’s about feeling safe in one’s needs – wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else.