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Devereaux is going with our pitch.”“ Hey, that’s just great, ” I said superperkily. “Wendell’s or mine?”“ Yours.”“ But you want to fire me. So fire me.”“ We can’t fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, ‘agreat kid, very courageous’ and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you hadbelievability.”“ That’s too bad.”“ Why? You’re not quitting! ” I thought about it. “Not if you don’t want me to. Do you?” Go on, say it.298 ââ„¢¥elavanillaââ„¢¥“No.”“No what?”“ No, we don’t want you to quit.”“ Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it.” Ariella swallowed. “Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can’t green-light charcoalsuits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors.”“ Charcoal suits or I’m gone.”“ Orange.”“ Charcoal.”“ Orange.”“ Charcoal.”“ Okay, charcoal.” It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinelydon’t care whether you have it or not.“ Right, ” I said. “I’m giving myself the rest of the day off. .Marian Keyes
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...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...Marian Keyes
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I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me– I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.Marian Keyes
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It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.Marian Keyes