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41 " Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out? "
― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary
42 " misogynist "
43 " If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance,”’ quotes Veronika. ‘George Bernard Shaw. "
44 " Aunt Connie killing the Munros is manifestly wrong. It was Alice. "
45 " mix up the "
46 " if an arm-less, leg-less woman on a skateboard could find a man, surely Sophie was doing something very, very wrong? How did this woman meet him? Pull on his trouser leg as she rolled by him in a nightclub?) Now "
47 " If I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t be suggesting it, would I? "
48 " Debbie served them home-made Anzac biscuits. "
49 " after a fancy-dress fortieth, and a very weird sober kiss with a fat man in the "
50 " No surprise you’re in pain, no surprise you’re dead. You’re old. That’s what is meant to happen. We don’t care that you forget you’re old. We know you’re old. "
51 " She combines them all into one giant sumo wrestler of humanity and punches him again and again in his big flabby stomach. "
52 " Looking after the baby is like taking some sort of terrifying, never-ending practical exam. "
53 " When will it all be over? When will she have time to think and feel again? Presumably not till the baby is a teenager and can safely fend for himself. Although, of course, teenagers need to be taught to drive and say no to drugs and wear condoms. "
54 " Although, of course, a fat man isn’t nearly as pathetic as a fat woman. Her "
55 " She could bully anyone into buying anything. "
56 " Aunt Connie "
57 " Their friends had got so old that whenever Connie bought a get-well card she also bought a sympathy card at the same time, to save herself the trouble of going back to the newsagent when they didn’t ‘get well’. "
58 " Good Lord. The first person she sees is Mick Drummond, with his ancient bobbing head. Would that man never die? Was he immortal? Was he real? "
59 " forty being the “precise age where you’re old enough and young enough to handle a revelation”. "
60 " Now I get it why you’re so popular. You’ve always been adored. You expect to be adored and so you are. "