Quotes from Carole Matthews

We all assume that we have our tomorrows to look forward to, but we never truly know what's waiting just around the corner.

You shouldn't marry someone you thought you could live with, you should marry someone you thought you couldn't live without.

It said if you were nervous about committing yourself to marriage and it was because you doubted yourself and whether you would make a good partner, then that was only natural and you should go ahead. It also said that if you doubted that the other person was right for you, then you should stop it.

One day you'll wake up and you'll realise that you're OK again.

I realize that I am powerless to resist him. There's nothing I can do; this man has a GPS navigation system that takes him straight to the center of my heart.

Loving someone doesn't mean that you only care for them when you feel like it. It means that you forgive them when they mess up.

I think we did love each other. In our own way. But we simply didn't love each other enough.

Life is too short to spend your time pining for someone who isn't here.

There are times when chocolate really is the answer to all of your prayers.

Sometimes people grow up together and sometimes they grow apart. You just have to try to make the best of it.

yellow fingers because he smoked a lot. And he danced

Love will find a way.

But you look happier than you have in ages, so who am I to criticise? You go for it, girl.

In theory it's easy, but I still can't help but feel sidelined.

This was life. You made the mistakes, you took the knocks, you carried on, you got stronger. Giving up, rolling over, dying – that wasn't an option.

However, the truth of the matter is that just because you love someone it doesn't mean that they're right for you.

I hope he loves you as I should have.

There's already someone that I love very much. I just never knew quite how much until it was too late.

the sleeves of my chocolate-scented T-shirt.

Chapter thirty-four

But I don't want you to have any respite from me.

The waiter talks us through the selection of confectionery. There's a white chocolate mousse cake infused with fresh mint and topped with raspberry purée, organic truffles made with my favorite Madagascar beans flavored with jasmine tea, passion fruit and limes sundried on trees in Iran.

Men don't usually leave cosy relationships unless they've found someone who wears ridiculously short skirts and stockings.

brandishing a duster in anger.