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1 " A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it. "
― Matt Dunn , Best Man
2 " Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. "
― Matt Dunn , The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook (Ed & Dan, #1)
3 " Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared... "
4 " Look at your eyes. You've got bigger bags than Louis Vuitton. "
5 " All a woman actually wants is to feel special. "
6 " Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes. "
― Matt Dunn , A Day at the Office
7 " When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will. "
8 " All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength. "
9 " Dan, rabbits who've been fed oysters laced with Viagra don't like sex as much as you do. "
10 " Patrick raised and lowered his eyebrows in a ‘gotcha!’ kind of way. "
― Matt Dunn , At the Wedding
11 " Whereas couples who aren’t married stay together because they want to be together. "
12 " Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing. "
13 " Is it the lack of opportunity that creates the lack of ambition, or has that always existed? Most of them must have parents who work, or who studied, and who of course want the same thing for their kids. But how do you find that in a town where the major achievement was always seen as escaping it? Eventually "
― Matt Dunn , Home
14 " because it’s not my dad’s fault he wasn’t the dad I wanted growing up. Just like it’s not his fault he got cancer. Blaming other people for the situation you find yourself in is just a waste of time. And besides, what’s he going to learn if I tell him a few home truths? "
15 " sometimes you find your path gets blocked, and you have to take a step back – back home, even – to move forward. "
16 " bottle of Chardonnay permanently in her fridge for ‘emotional emergencies,’ which "
17 " Maybe it’s living back at my parents’ house, or perhaps going back to school, but somehow, surrounded by all these reminders from my past, in the middle of all the stuff I grew up with, with the people I grew up around, I think I’m finally beginning to understand what ‘home’ means. "
18 " He’d admired it in the window of a shop on the Strand when he’d met her for dinner one evening, never expecting her to surprise him with it a couple of days later. Now he could see that perhaps she’d bought it out of guilt, but at the time, he just felt it showed how much she’d loved him. He’d been too wrapped up in their future to see it as just a present. And today, perhaps appropriately, it had stopped. Still, at least he was making good time—for "
19 " skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes, and "
20 " point. Married people . . . you’ve always got that divorce thing looming on the horizon, haven’t you? "
