39 Quotes by Harriet Evans

WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.

I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on

We had loads in common but we just didn't see the world in the same way.

She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.

She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.

To know yourself is to know where you're from

Since being back in London everything seemed greyer, but clearer. She couldn't explain it. The strangest thing was she couldn't recall her New York self. She wanted that part of herself back, but she couldn't remember what it was like to be that Elle. She would catch a whiff of it, like the snatch of a song that still won't lead you to the chorus, and then it would be gone.