“For the last few weeks I've had something to look forward to, something to give my life at least a bit of purpose, rather than sitting on a train for nearly three hours a day and going home to an argument and food designed for five-year-olds. It's been months since anyone has taken an interest in me. I haven't talked to anyone for years like we’ve talked. I mean, really talked?”
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“How do you talk to a married man who has just declared undying friendship for you?”
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“It just so happens to be true. We've drifted apart recently. I can't tell her about you because she wouldn't understand that we can be just friends. Anyway, I'm a hopeless liar, it's best just to tell her nothing: Admittedly, he was getting better at lying. Practice certainly does make imperfect.”
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“So that's what we are - just friends?'
Jamie shrugged. 'I don't know.'
'There's a lot you don't know, isn't there?”
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“Men and women can't be just friends. Two minutes ago we were talking just like friends and the next minute I'd stepped over the boundary and we were discussing things that friends shouldn't. It's only another small step for mankind for us to be doing things that friends shouldn't either. And by tomorrow I'll have forgotten what I said and we'll be back to boss and secretary again. Yet you'll think of it every time you see my desk piled high with paperwork.
That's the difference between men and women.”
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“Could she really even consider doing this to another woman? Another woman with children...”
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“And why was it when you finally met the man of your dreams you invariably found yourself in the middle of your worst nightmare?”
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“He had tried. Not to ring her, but to not ring her. He had tried not to think about her. He had tried not to pursue her.”
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“He was a married man - it was too cruel, too calculating, too bloody unfair of him to pursue her in cold blood.”
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“You don't hold hands with people uniess there's something going on.”
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