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A review by amayafirme
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
dolly alderton so perfectly describes the importance and the kind of unique love felt from female friendships. i couldn't help but think of my best friends as i was reading. some of my favorite quotes:
"I know what it is to feel like you’ve always got a lighthouse – lighthouses – to guide you back to dry land; to feel the warmth of its beam as it squeezes your hand... I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain... It’s introducing them to your colleagues at a work event and basking in pride as they make people laugh and make you look lovable just by dint of being loved by them. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s waking up in a country neither of you have been in before. It’s skinny-dipping at dawn. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is just yours. It’s a big, beautiful, ebullient force of nature... I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up air beds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport or in a traffic jam."
"The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves."
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"I know what it is to feel like you’ve always got a lighthouse – lighthouses – to guide you back to dry land; to feel the warmth of its beam as it squeezes your hand... I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain... It’s introducing them to your colleagues at a work event and basking in pride as they make people laugh and make you look lovable just by dint of being loved by them. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s waking up in a country neither of you have been in before. It’s skinny-dipping at dawn. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is just yours. It’s a big, beautiful, ebullient force of nature... I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up air beds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport or in a traffic jam."
"The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves."
💌🎀❤️🩹