Never Google Heartbreak

I want you. I’ve always wanted you and I never want to stop wanting you.

What do any of us know at any age?

Riding on buses, boats, bikes, taxis and underground trains, talking on phones, hustling for deals, queuing for coffee. This world is moving on while I sit here feeling like I’ve swallowed a great big jagged rock.

Max has woken me from a nightmare and I realise that when I’m with him, everything is proper and brilliant and in colour.

Chantilly lace. I sold the last two meringues on eBay.

We still have to pick out our wedding bands. They’ll be platinum to match the engagement ring. It’s funny but since he gave me this rock I’ve never taken it off, not even when he wanted to postpone th

‘We have adventurous sex.’

state that I’m the one who left and so he should be the one to ring.

two years of living together, he left me without so much as a spoon to stir my tea.’

I’m not broken-hearted - as I said, we’re just on a break.

a cruel-to-be-kind thing, like cutting back a lovely but straggly rosebush. You only do it to let something more beautiful bloom,