The Break Quotes
"I love you. I will always love you. I want us to be together always."
"I feel like I'm being buried alive and that I'll burst if I don't change something."
"I love our life together, I will always love you, and after six months I promise to come back."
"I want us to grow old together. I want us to be together till the end."
"This isn't a cowardly way of saying I want us to split up."
"I've spent a lot of time putting them ahead of me. I want some time where I put me first."
"I know it will hurt you and I hate myself for that, but I can't stop my thoughts."
"I’m sorry, Amy. I’m so sorry. I hate doing this to you."
"I can't go on like this. Everything seems pointless."
"But it’s different when it actually happens. When you’re young and vulnerable. When you have a baby with the man. And when you love him as much as I loved Richie Aldin."
"‘I’ve been cheating since you were pregnant.’ ‘No.’ I began to choke with tears."
"Life was gruelling – five hours’ sleep counted as a good night – and yet in photos from that time, it’s astonishing how healthy and sane I look."
"‘A break?’ Neeve is incredulous. ‘Do you think you’re Taylor Swift?’"
"‘The important thing to remember,’ Hugh says, ‘is that I love you all very much. I love you and I’ll be back.’"
"‘Everyone always leaves.’ Poor Sofie. She looks frayed and unkempt, her fine white-blonde hair tangled into knots."
"‘If you died tomorrow,’ she prompts, ‘what would you regret not having done?’"
"‘I’d regret not getting thin again,’ I say. ‘I’d hate to die being the wrong size. I feel that I wouldn’t be able to properly enjoy the afterlife.’"
"We all pause, and Sofie is so shocked, her sobs cease. Then Kiara takes the bun off Sofie’s plate and disposes of it in two speedy mouthfuls."
"But making him stay wouldn’t work, Derry. He’s been miserable and emotionally unavailable."
"‘Hugh, listen to me,’ I say urgently. ‘Even if you do come back, you’ll be different. And I might be different too. "Us" will be gone.’"
"‘You know I love you.’ Petra looks me in the eyes. ‘And it’s not just me, you have good friends. Together we’ll take care of you.’"
"I’m not going to Joe’s wedding. Not unless he moves the date. Then I’m happy to go."
"‘I’ll miss you.’ ‘I’ll miss you.’ ‘Then why are you going?’"
"Perhaps this is one of the benefits of adulthood – you can feel as if you’ve lost everything that ever mattered and still eat an omelette and enquire after a journalist’s pet poodle."
"Mortgaged to the hilt! Bank talking foreclosure! Bloody terrified, if truth be told!"
"I was an idiot. Greedy idiot. Stealing from the tax-payer. Inexcusable. Want to make my amends to society."
"I know you said you wanted nothing to do with any man except Hugh, but us forty-something women are packed with sexual energy."
"This wasn't what Premilla Routh had planned for her life."
"Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place."
"Don’t run from your bad feelings. Instead, dance with them."
"The greatest crisis is also our greatest opportunity."
"You're only ever as happy as your least happy child."
"Nothing she likes better than sitting in a café on the Champs-Élysées sipping absinthe and smoking a cheroot."
"‘Would you get me some stuff in Sephora?’ I ask. ‘No.’"
"I’ll do an email. You’d just have to show your phone to the lady – you wouldn’t even have to speak."
"Mrs Staunton has informed me she wants my undivided."
"‘It’s the Marc Jacobs primer,’ I call after him. ‘Just in case.’"
"‘You don’t get the flu from wet hair,’ Neeve yells from her room. ‘More’s the pity!’"
"But it’s so hard, suddenly being a lone parent."
"‘I despise myself for not ‘doing’ more with this unexpected hiatus.’"
"‘I wish I’d had an abortion.’ ‘No, Petra, please don’t!’"
"‘It’s like he’s telling me, "I hurt you and now I feel guilty, so I’m going to make you be friends with me."’"
"I forgive you for leaving me the way you did. But I can never forgive you for all the ways you hurt Neeve."
"I’ve a near-constant pain in my stomach – it’s there so much I almost don’t notice it."
"I’d find myself puzzling over the flirtiness, attraction, whatever it was, that had crackled between us."
"‘I don’t want to be a woman with sideburns. I’m no hipster!’ I call out."
"If you find your lipstick shade, and it might take most of your life but when you find it, buy at least three of them because they’ll stop making it as soon as they hear you like it."
"‘Mind you,’ says Alastair. ‘Tim is so cut-and-dried about everything, not everyone would put up with him.’"
"I admire that she doesn’t do that thing where I show her handbag lots of love, then she does the same to mine."
"I’m sorry, Amy, but Mrs Staunton has informed me she wants my undivided."
"‘I’m lighting the candles.’ An in-joke: it was how I signalled to Hugh that I was in the mood."
"‘You should drink a big glass of water between each mouthful,’ she says. Suddenly, from the living room, Pop yells, ‘Fuck off with yourself!’"
"Dry is lacking oil and dehydrated is lacking water."
"We're all just flawed human beings, lurching along together as best we can."
"I wish I'd never met you that day in the Black Friar."
"I want to feel ... desired, like you're crazy with want for me."
"A relationship is like creating a small, land-locked country."
"I want to be all cool about you and your other ... others. But I'm not."
"I don't want to hurt Hugh and I don't want my marriage to end."
"We have to make those three months wonderful."
"I don't want to spend time with you. I don't want to see you."
"If you want to come, you'd better do it now."
"It's not right to dress this up, to disguise it as something it's not."
"I’m sorry, Amy. For all of this. I shouldn’t have been having sex."
"I don’t want to bring a person like me into the world."
"I can’t bring a person like me into the world."
"I want to go to college, I want to be a scientist and research cures for things, I want a future."
"I don’t want to bring a person into the world who is like me."