Dolly Alderton

Many times, I would invent a person in my head and create our chemistry as if writing a screenplay, and by the time we’d meet again in real life, I’d be crushingly let down. It was as if, when things didn’t go as I imagined, I’d assumed he would have been given a copy of the script I’d written and I’d feel frustrated that his agent obviously forgot to courier it to him to memorize.

When I finally have a boyfriend, little else will matter.

When friends have boyfriends they become boring.

Yeah, you are,’ he replied. ‘I felt you come closer.’

Sometimes the gap between the little faith you have compared to the unwavering faith of others is a very moving thing.’

Maybe no man will ever be able to fill it.’

He was lost and looking for a lifeboat. He was sad and he needed a distraction. We were two lonely people who needed a fantasy to escape ourselves

He was the little boy in the playground who covered his eyes and thought no one could see him. But finally I could see him

Their function was for gratification, whereas female

friends provided everything else that mattered