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1 " Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right. "
― Marian Keyes , The Brightest Star in the Sky
2 " You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it. "
3 " Todays uplifting phrase is "love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse. "
4 " The Chinese word for “crisis” also means “opportunity. "
5 " It is my honour to act as your ceiling "
6 " Look," she sighed. "You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And all the recent photographs of me are bad, very jowly. I couldn't have them stuck to the lamp posts around the city. On your way, son." (Woman to Matt, when he tried to give her a lift.) "
7 " A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong. "
8 " Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets. "
9 " You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won’t be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out. "
10 " You could have nothing with a teenage daughter in the house, not mascara, not ankle boots, not breadknives, not sedatives; they took everything, selfish little bitches! "
11 " They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing. "
12 " Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing. "
13 " Katie's mum, Penny, said "I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now."And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. "He'll make mincemeat of you."He won't," Katie protested. "I'm not going to fall for him."So why are you bothering at all?"Just killing time until I die. "
14 " One day we’ll all be dead and none of this will matter. "
15 " But you felt safe.”“What sort of safe?”“Safe for me. Safe from harm. Every kind of safe. "
16 " I’ve been heartbroken before. I really don’t know if I have the energy for it again. "
17 " We always want what we can’t have. "
18 " Goodness and happiness were gone for ever and nothing could be retrieved. This was going to end; and end terribly. The last three years had been spent trying to dodge their fate, but it was rushing up to meet them. "
19 " Life was getting dark around the edges. It was like he was moving through a tunnel that was becoming narrower and blacker and more choked and airless, and soon there would be nothing left for him to breathe and no room for him to move. "
20 " That one day you will be happy again. Your life will get better. "
