Sushi For Beginners Quotes
"Speculation finally burst into flames when it was confirmed that Calvin Carter, the US Managing Director, had been sighted roaming around the top floor, looking for the gents’."
"It’s happening. Lisa clenched her fists in excitement. It’s actually finally, bloody happening."
"But what did Lisa care, she thought, hobbling to the lift, she wouldn’t have a job here after today. She’d have a much better one somewhere else."
"Sorry, I thought it was later. Perhaps you’d show me again how to improve my swing."
"Smiles were a commodity like everything else, only given in exchange for something useful."
"Like many companies in the Western world, Randolph Media rewarded hard work with poor pay, increasing workloads, demotions and on-a-second’s-notice redundancies."
"‘Dublin? Ireland?’ ‘Small wet place across the Irish sea,’ Barry offered kindly."
"‘You want a dumbed-down magazine?’ ‘You got it,’ Calvin beamed."
"‘No, The Catholic Judger is about to fold,’ Barry interrupted. ‘Sales figures are way down.’"
"But you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Dublin was not New York, no matter how you sliced it."
"‘Any wine left?’ ‘They stayed until every last drop of wine was drunk, every last crumb of Hula Hoop wiped off the tray with a licked finger, then they turned to each other and demanded in dangerously high spirits, ‘What now?!’"
"‘Revenge is a dish best served cold!’ He threw back his head and gave forth a hollow series of fake Vincent Price-type laughs."
"Why can’t you go on about the size of your bum, like normal women do?"
"Having no waist isn’t the worst thing that could happen to someone."
"For a couple of months she rotated and whittled, day and night, her tongue stuck earnestly out of the corner of her mouth."
"You’re so fortunate to have your personality. Me, all I have is my looks."
"‘I didn’t think anyone actually believed them,’ Ashling whispered, in her defence."
"It wasn’t your fault that woman’s couch was ruined!"
"The true source of his grief was Mai. She drove him insane. He hated her so much."
"‘For fuck’s sake,’ Molly enunciated, with crystal clarity."
"‘One swallow doesn’t make a relationship,’ Ashling warned, with the wisdom of experience."
"The Catholic Judger’s gone bust? There was a thing in the paper about it."
"‘I’ve low self-esteem,’ Ashling reminded him, with a bright smile."
"‘But you’re mind-blowingly organized.’ He was baffled."
"You could have done with one after Dad hurt his back and we had to live on his disability."
"Life continued like this for eighteen months, until the wonderful intimacy began to disintegrate into squabbles and rows."
"I work hard for my money," she fumed. "Extremely hard."
"There but for the grace of God go I," she thought.
"We’re not making the advertising," he said, baldly. "Nobody’s biting."
"I can’t believe this is Ireland," Ashling said. "Irish men! Dancing!"
"I think it’s because I gave him the Band-Aid that day."
"Despite her confidence in her looks, Lisa had to admit that Jack’s girlfriend had come as a bit of a shock."
"Even though we’re a women’s magazine and our audience will be ninety-five per cent women, I think there’s a real case for having a column by a man in Colleen."
"But more interestingly, even though we’re a women’s magazine and our audience will be ninety-five per cent women, I think there’s a real case for having a column by a man in Colleen."
"‘I…’ Ashling managed. ‘What?’ Lisa shot, her golden face terrifying, her grey eyes as hard and cold as marbles."
"‘It’ll be a great coup,’ Lisa smiled at Jack."
"‘My friend Ted is on too,’ Ashling heard herself say."
"‘Good job I haven’t any plans for Saturday night,’ Ashling heard spilling from her normally meek mouth."
"‘That’s right,’ Lisa agreed, coolly. ‘Good job.’"
"‘You’re amazing,’ he said, with simple sincerity. ‘Quite amazing. Thank you.'"
"‘What happens at a publicity do?’ Trix asked Lisa."
"But rule number two – never be on time. Everyone knows that! You’re too important."
"My owl has got no wife. Shit, that’s wrong! My wife has got no nose. No! Shit, shit, shit!"
"‘But we’ll talk to you until they come,’ he offered with a gallant smile."
"‘It’s the most delicious food I’ve ever tasted.’ Lisa licked her fingers and gazed across the table at him."
"‘But bringing up kids is the most important job anyone can do,’ Ashling protested."
"‘What about yours?’ ‘I couldn’t give a feck about mine.’ He turned and gave her an unexpectedly mischievous smile."
"‘I have to go.’ Joy rescued the situation. ‘I’m afraid I’m going to die. See you later.'"
"‘And guess what?’ Marcus scanned the audience with a cute, goofy expression. ‘She never rang!’"
"‘Bellez-moi!’ Marcus declared. ‘Suave, slick, sophisticated. What woman could resist? Bellez-moi!’"
"‘But,’ Ashling interrupted, feeling someone should defend her, ‘don’t you think before we give out about her, we should walk a mile in her shoes?’"
"Far be it for me to bitch about someone who isn't here to defend themselves."
"Little Miss Fix-it, why do you have to make everything all right for everyone?"
"You'll have loads of rules and none of them will work."
"Fucking unconditional love, she thought bitterly. What a terrible burden it was."
"I keep getting the urge to jump up and cut up other people’s dinners for them…"
"It’s hard to say. I don’t have much to go on. If you’d consider retraining…"
"‘I’m not talking about a drink,’ she said, with heavy meaning."
"‘Time for bed.’ ‘Blimey.’ He started at her brazenness and stood up obediently."
"‘Close the door and take your clothes off,’ Lisa said, getting more and more into her dominatrix role."
"‘You’re going to love this,’ he grinned, slowly unbuttoning his shirt. ‘I do two hundred sit-ups a day.’"
"‘Now you,’ he said. With a minxy, meaningful smile – attitude was important – she pulled her white dress over her head in one fluid movement."
"‘Snap,’ Wayne laughed, unzipping his tight, tailored trousers. His erection sprang forth, already semi-tumescent. No underwear."
"‘Well, I like it fast now,’ she gasped, and Wayne obediently obliged. In the throes of pleasure, she bit his shoulder."
"You're a man, you lot invented the rule. Bye!"
"Anyone who said that a one-night stand with a complete stranger left you feeling cheap and shitty was wrong."
"No one reads fucking books, that’s why we’ve got to make the page look sexy!"
"The only thing my fella feeds me is his mickey."
"Different women want different things for their hair."
"Time is not an absolute, but depends on the shininess of the observer's hair in space."
"What kind of man arrives early? A gentleman."
"I spent all morning looking for a new lipstick and I'm after buying exactly the same one I had already."
"She was hoping he’d refuse and she could go on her way with a clear conscience, but he looked at her with forlorn gratitude."
"‘I won’t make a habit of this,’ he promised, as she led him up the stairs."
"‘I smell,’ he admitted, shamefaced. ‘I’m sorry.’"
"Something burst in her heart. A grief, a rage."
"‘Towels.’ Her back teeth were clamped against each other as she plumped a soft bundle into his arms."
"The moment Ashling saw Dylan she knew something appalling had happened."
"What terrible things people do to those they love."
"‘Caught them in bed.’ Dylan’s voice charted into sudden soprano."
"‘You’ve done this to me before,’ Ashling said quietly. ‘Dylan was my boyfriend first.’"
"‘You’re wrong,’ Ashling corrected nastily. ‘I mind losing my boyfriend much more.’"
"I don’t know, I can’t describe it. But I’ve been lonely and bored."
"‘That means no. Do you love this… him?’ A miserable nod. ‘I think so.’"
"I’ll be back tonight to explain things to my children."
"‘I still love you,’ she implored. ‘So what was that all about?’"
"‘You’re no longer in love with me?’ Dylan finished harshly."
"‘I still love you,’ she repeated, her voice more subdued, ‘but…’"
"Did you think of me at all when you were fucking my boyfriend?"
"‘I did think of you, Ashling,’ she said humbly. ‘I did, it’s been so difficult.’"
"Don’t try to make me feel sorry for you. You have fucking everything."
"‘When did this start with Marcus?’ ‘When you were in Cork.’"
"‘I wouldn’t have thought he was your type,’ Ashling accused."
"‘I wouldn’t have thought he was my type either,’ Clodagh admitted."
"‘And what about Dylan?’ Clodagh hung her head."
"I’ve betrayed you, our friendship, and that must hurt more than the end of your, um, romance."
"Let’s get one thing straight. I forgave you for Dylan. But I will never forgive you for this."
"I’m a failure, I acknowledged. I’m a big, fat failure. My marriage is over."
"‘Getting divorced,’ he muttered. ‘Your man must be mad. And blind.’"
"I have a vacancy at the television station I work at and I’m looking for the right person to fill it."