Alice and Patrick

Hello! I saw the last person ask a question about Patrick and Alice and I’ve been re reading them too. And I can’t help but notice Patrick was kind of a jerk to Al when they were teens, why did he choose Penny over Alice when he supposedly loved her and then turned around and dated the witch named Penny, sorry but I don’t like her and she was a bad friend to Alice at that time. And then he broke up with her again and admitted his attraction to other women in his letter, I hate that he kept reeling Al in just to break her heart again. I Do love your books though! And I’m glad things finally ended well with them and they settled down and got married, I also wanted to ask how do you get over anger and jealousy for someone? I’m not good at it so I wanted to ask you.

I’m not very good at that either, but I remind myself that there are a few people who feel anger and jealousy at me.  It’s really difficult when we think that we should win a particular prize to see it go to someone else.  Or to feel strongly attracted to a particular person and have him or her fall for somebody else.  The best thing to do is to build on the things you do best; look best; enjoy the most, and you will become most attractive to the people who are looking for exactly those characteristics and talents.   Try to get to know better the people who have won the prize or the person you wanted for yourself, and you may eventually decide that they deserved what they earned.  Yes, Patrick was a jerk at times.  And he was simply slower to really love than Alice was.  It was good that they both had time away from each other to fall for other people so that they could compare their feeling for others and for each other.  And in the end, Patrick chose Alice, and loved her enough to never want to hurt her.