Unperfect Quotes
"Pain is just a chemical process. You don’t have to focus on it. You can choose to ignore it."
"Despite the pain, my eyelids started to feel heavy."
"Eyes open, I chanted to myself. Stay awake, stay awake, stay awake."
"Just for a moment, I thought. I’ll close my eyes just for a few seconds."
"Ignoring the pain from my ribs and shoulder and straightening in my chair, I forced a smile."
"My heart sank when I realised that it was Verity Markham, a partner at this firm."
"It was all business and efficiency, but I hadn’t missed the way she’d scanned me top to toe."
"I forced a smile. 'Yes, yes of course. Totally back to normal. Last time I attempt stairs in heels though.'"
"I decided to take it up as soon as I could muster the ladyballs required."
"Reiki is not bullshit and Mark does not want me to polish his knob."
"Nobody has ever needed urgent Reiki, because Reiki is a bunch of bullshit."
"I blinked. There was a lot to unpack there, and I thought Verity may be right."
"Don’t worry, Yaz isn’t a regular feature of the office."
"I blinked and froze in my seat. For Verity to snap at a man this intimidating and call him an arse... it blew my mind."
"I’m fine, really. I have a ton of stuff to do today."
"I hadn’t cried since That Night, and I wasn’t going to start now."
"Being your employee doesn’t mean you own her."
"She’s not just cold, you git – she looked almost dead and felt like ice."
"I just couldn’t seem to get her wide-set, chocolate eyes out of my head."
"You went for a walk with no gloves on, a damp coat..."
"I really am sorry. I’ve been a proper dickhead."
"Maybe if you treated me with some respect. Maybe if you didn’t shout and throw your weight around like a massive toddler."
"I didn’t think that being compared to a robot from an eighties movie was a particularly great compliment, but his voice was so warm that it almost sounded like one."
"Those bony things are vicious weapons. I’ll have a teeny tiny bruise from that tomorrow."
"Got to keep this old carcass semi-fit somehow."
"You’d be surprised. It’s actually pretty popular."
"It’s a mixed team and it doesn’t matter if you’re small."
"Mia, you’ve saved my arse by Number Fiveing the fuck out of this presentation."
"I mean, look at these little guys. How do you even hold stuff with them?"
"Mia, you freaked out. I’ve never seen owt like it."
"You don’t need to finish the rest of the presentation."
"I wouldn’t want to make you feel any more uncomfortable than I already have."
"Don’t you care about my iron and B12 levels?"
"Mia, it’s not normal for someone of your age to come down with pneumonia so severely."
"Who was he to criticise this new relationship that I considered myself lucky to be a part of?"
"I thought my parents would be grateful, but Mum had been hurt."
"I should have been embarrassed of Nate, not of my family."
"Over the years, as I’d drifted from my family, Paul had been angry, but that anger soon merged to concern."
"I don’t care what you say Mimi – I’ll never forgive myself for that."
"This was beer and sausage rolls rather than champagne and caviar."
"You deserve someone normal, for Christ’s sake."
"I’m broken in a thousand small ways, tiny little jarring bits of twisted psyche all coming together to make me entirely fucked up!"
"You have to choose to be happy and to make my son happy, love."
"I know you don’t, mate," Heath cut off my furious tirade before it could get going properly. "But you might if your business had gone under and you couldn’t pay for Teddy’s uni or to keep Mia safe and give her what she deserves."
"Mia’s had offers from three different tech companies since this whole thing blew up. She’d been fine without me."