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.
Freya NorthStichwörter: not-settling-for-second-best versions-of-love
I am a terrible judge of character'
"I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.
Stichwörter: judgement facts feelings
It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his own Vita at home. You're his potential Suzie. Is that who you want to be? Do you want the next man in your life to have Tim's principles?
Freya NorthStichwörter: attraction principals finding-the-right-man
Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.
Freya NorthStichwörter: reflective self-indulgent
She's finding it hard to cope - her hopes have been dashed, the future she dreamed about has gone and she's scared about that. There's nothing in its place. She wants you back. She doesn't want to let go of everything it meant to her.
Because the world seems horribly big and empty. Because the future is a very frightening concept when you'd previously planned on sharing it with someone. Because she's a girl, she's a romantic and she fears if she lets go of her dream, she'll live a nightmare. Because she has a hope and she fears if she lets her hope go, who will she be?
The effort, the pain of clinging on is preferable to the wide-open fear of letting go.
Stichwörter: letting-go old-love
It wasn't about opening her mind, it was about closing down the racket of thoughts and opening up her body.
She was tingling and throbbing and hot, not so much from her desire specifically for rick, as from a very physical yearning for human touch, to be wanted and ravished by another person after such a long period without. His attention, his hunger, was the thrill; it was an ego massage which in itself was better than her breasts being fondled.
Stichwörter: excitement thrill something-new
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.
Freya NorthStichwörter: excitement flirting beginnings
They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.
Freya NorthStichwörter: excitement flirting beginnings
Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer.
Freya NorthStichwörter: falling-in-love
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.
Freya NorthStichwörter: past future present heartache broken-dreams
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