Just Like You Quotes
"How could one say with any certainty what one hated most in the world?"
"Right now, at 11:15 on a cold Saturday morning, the thing she hated most in the world was queuing outside the butcher's."
"It was a particular stage of the queuing that she hated."
"She could afford not to think about them quite a lot of the time."
"The tricky in-or-out part was probably another ten minutes away, though."
"You could provide uninformed and unasked-for opinion, and you could be as nosy as you wanted."
"Cooking kept the evening away from the afternoon—it was a punctuation mark."
"You had to play against the rest of the world now, and the rest of the world was both big and good at football."
"The absence of key negatives was much more important than any positive."
"Sometimes he didn’t want to be the only grown-up at York Road."
"A portfolio. You’re portfolio working. That’s the future."
"She liked the new quiet of Saturday afternoons."
"If everyone ran off with other people when they’re medium, nobody would stay married for five minutes."
"He wanted intellectual stimulation and sexual excitement, and if he couldn’t have that then he didn’t need anybody."
"He tried to avoid serving her, but he quickly worked out that this was worse."
"She didn’t like the look of the pudding so she came home."
"The thing is, I don’t know how unhappy your wife was."
"And in any case the butcher was just too good, so she was willing to spend the extra."
"He settled for a push in the chest instead, a push hard enough to knock John over."
"Lucy was forty-two, and unlikely ever again to find herself strapped to a railway line while a locomotive bore down on her."
"It hadn't been a big deal before she met Paul."
"Years and years of being a grown-up had given her entirely obstructive clues to what was going on in the minds of other people."
"I can see that there's more than one kind of hot."
"What use had she had for psychology when she was drunk and twenty-five?"
"Maybe the secret to a successful relationship was to pay someone ten pounds an hour, every hour."
"Life hadn’t been fizzy for a while. It had been hard."
"The only time he ever spent on anything resembling a dream was the time he spent trying to create a track."
"Because of Joseph, she really didn’t know what she was going to do in the next five minutes, let alone the next five years."
"The trick was to blow as many bubbles as possible."
"He wasn’t established in any field, really. He’d be bringing her stuff, like a puppy, for a long time to come."
"It was nice, and it came to a natural end, for all the obvious reasons. And I’m very glad he has a girlfriend who is more appropriate for him."
"Joseph and I… We haven’t quite got enough. It’s been a nice summer, though."
"There’s no ‘so.’ That’s it. Where are you getting a ‘so’ from?"
"Well, you know. Not permanent. That’s the wrong word. Official."
"Well, if she’s not my girlfriend, I’m not her boyfriend."
"We weren’t together. We were just keeping each other company."
"We’re not going to change the subject and talk about numbers. Nice try, though."
"Because... I don't know. I'm scared that once I start, I'll never stop."
"Everything seemed to be about marriages and divorces until Scott’s sister started to sing the Ed Sheeran song."
"You’re my life, now," said Joseph. "That’s enough."
"She sighed when she turned the page and saw another long unbroken paragraph about landscaping as punctuation."
"So why don’t you want me there? Is it anything to do with women?"
"I’m sorry," Lucy said. "I didn’t mean... I didn’t know... Would you like to go back to the pub for a bit?"
"She was dying to talk to someone," said Lucy.
"It shouldn’t come to that," said Chris. "It should never come to that."
"He wished he smoked. He wished he was a proper drinker. He wished he took drugs."
"I have no intention of marrying Joseph," Lucy said. "He’s too young, and he will want children one day. That won’t be with me."