#dolly alderton

[allthesepurplelights]

[maddieisnotreal]

everything i know about love, dolly alderton

[crimsonsclovers]

On long, lonely nights when your fear crawls over your brain like cockroaches and you can't get to sleep, dream of the time you were loved — in another lifetime, one of toil and blood. Remember how it felt to find shelter in someone's arms. Hope that you'll find it again.

everything i know about love, Dolly Alderton

[snghw4ngel]

everything i know about love; dolly alderton

chapter: florence (page 203)

[melodysbookhaven]

“It is futile and knackering to try and make all your tiny choices representative of your moral compass then beat yourself up when this plan inevitably fails. Feminists can get waxed. Priests can swear. Vegetarians can wear leather shoes. Do as much good as you can. The weighty representation of the world cannot rest on every decision you make.”

Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

[peach-tea-leaves]

Just One More Page Challenge Day 3: TBR This Month

I normally don’t set monthly tbrs, but these are two books I definitely want to get too soon!

I’ve heard such great things about both of these authors that I can’t believe its taken me this long to read their work!

[thebooksaidthat]

When you’re looking for love and it seems like you might not ever find it, remember you probably have access to an abundance of it already, just not the romantic kind. This kind of love might not kiss you in the rain or propose marriage. But it will listen to you, inspire and restore you. It will hold you when you cry, celebrate when you’re happy, and sing All Saints with you when you’re drunk. You have so much to gain and learn from this kind of love. You can carry it with you forever. Keep it as close to you as you can.

Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

[holly-mckenzie]

1.04 / 1.08  EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE

[meetmeatthemidnight]

💎BEL POWLEY💎 for Porter Magazine

”I have had that cliché thing when you finally know yourself. I don’t mean to say that I’m completely sorted, but that I know who I am,” she considers. “I know what I want from my career. I am not scared to say no.”

[gsdigitaldiary]

Love is a quiet , reassuring, relaxing , pottering , pedantic , harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there , even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.

everything I know about love / Dolly Alderton

[therockerfromspace]

"I have never hated anything as much as I hated being a teenager. I could not have been more ill-suited to the state of adolescence. I was desperate to be an adult; desperate to be taken seriously. I hated relying on anyone for anything. I'd sooner have cleaned floors than be given pocket money or walked three miles in the rain at night than be given a lift home by a parent. I was looking up the price of one-bedroom flats in Camden when I was fifteen, so I could get a head start on saving up with my babysitting money. I was using my mum's recipes and dining table to host 'dinner parties' at the same age, forcing my friends round for rosemary roast chicken tagliatelle and raspberry pavlovas with a Frank Sintra soundtrack, when all they wanted to do was eat burgers and go bowling. I wanted my own my friends, my own schedule, my own home, my own money and my own life. I found being a teenager one big, frustrating, mortifying, exposing, co-dependent embarrassment that couldn't end fast enough."

Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love (once again I violently relate to this passage).

[allthesepurplelights]

[klara-konka]

My favourite parts of Dolly Alderton’s Twenty-eight Lessons Learnt in Twentyeight Years

You are the sum total of everything that has happened to you up until that last slurp of that cup of tea you just put down. How your parents hugged you, that thing your first boyfriend once said about your thighs – these are all bricks that have been laid from the soles of your feet up. Your eccentricities, foibles and fuck-ups are a butterfly effect of things you saw on telly, things teachers said to you and the way people have looked at you since the first moment you opened your eyes. Being a detective for your past – tracing back through all of it to get to the source with the help of a professional – can be incredibly useful and freeing.

Don’t eat sugar every day. Sugar turns everything on the outside and inside of your body to shit. Three litres of water makes everything work properly. A glass of red wine is medicinal.

It is futile and knackering to try and make all your tiny choices representative of your moral compass then beat yourself up when this plan inevitably fails. Feminists can get waxed. Priests can swear. Vegetarians can wear leather shoes. Do as much good as you can. The weighty representation of the world cannot rest on every decision you make.

Let people laugh at you. Let yourself be a tit. Pronounce things wrong. Spill yoghurt down your shirt. It is the greatest relief to finally let it happen.

It’s completely OK to focus on yourself. You’re allowed to travel and live on your own and spend all your money on yourself and flirt with whoever you like and be as consumed with your work as you want. You don’t have to get married and you don’t have to have children. It doesn’t make you shallow if you don’t want to open up and share your life with a partner. But it’s also completely not OK to be in a relationship if you know that you want to be on your own.

Gender, age and size regardless: everyone looks good in a white shirt or a thick polo neck or brown leather boots or a denim jacket or a navy pea coat.

Try to pretend Wi-Fi on the tube doesn’t exist. It’s completely shit anyway. Always have a book in your bag.

If you’re feeling wildly overwhelmed with everything, try this: clean your room, answer all your unanswered emails, listen to a podcast, have a bath, go to bed before eleven.

Swim naked in the sea at every possible opportunity. Go out of your way to do it. If you are driving somewhere faintly near the coast and you smell the salty lick of the sea in the air, park the car, take off your clothes and don’t stop running until you’re titsdeep in icy ocean.

Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know about Love is a great book, especially if you’re having a quarter life crisis and I can’t recommend it enoug, even though I couldn’t really relate to the first few chapters.

[mena11]

"My friends, quite rightly, thought I was insane to have become so quickly obsessed with someone I didn’t know. But they were also used to it – me finding a new love interest had always been like a greedy child opening a toy on Christmas Day. I ripped the packaging open, got frustrated trying to make it work, played with it obsessively until it broke, then chucked the broken pieces of plastic in the back of a cupboard on Boxing Day."

Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

[jacquelinep21]

“Love should be about aligning your life with another person, not a place of make-believe you can escape to where you always feel high, are the star of the show and unquestioningly adored.”-Dolly Alderton

[melodysbookhaven]

“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”

Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love