Quotes from Ally Blake

I'm a cold-hearted bastard. I'm insular, I'm jaded, a workaholic, I'm ruthless and I'm self-serving. I don't do forever, I rarely even do "I'll call you tomorrow". And just because I'm here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.

Now don't go thinking nice things about me. You'll only be disappointed.

Trust was now a four-letter word.

I'm perfectly discriminating,' he said with a devilish smile. 'How's that? No blondes after Labour Day?' 'I said I was discriminating, not an imbecile.

Yeah, he's just a huge flirt. He flirted with me, every female reporter within eyeshot, some of the men, and a pot plant on the way into his office. It's pathological.

If I'm right,' she said, 'and you have all sorts of juicy information in that dossier of yours, you'll know that I am an abnormally forgiving person, even of those who have used me and hurt me more than one person deserves to be hurt. But right this second, I am looking forward to the day you rot in hell.

His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle.

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

Love isn't poison. It won't kill you. It's natural, it's complicated, it's crazy-making, but it's a fact of life.

He's like the door of a bank safe- all big and hard and shinny and tempting, but impossible to get through.

Mathematics is natural. Love is natural. It only makes sense that it's mathematically quantifiable.

The majority of love affairs are temporary. But that doesn't diminish the possibility the next one might become something more.

Faking it in front of a guy's family is hardly a common occurrence in my life. How about yours?" FAKING IT TO MAKING IT

My whole adult life I've worked toward one goal—the success of our business. But I might as well have been chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. What I was looking for, striving for, wasn't really there. Meaning I've been measuring the value of my life all wrong. Then I met you and realized that being a somebody isn't nearly as wonderful as having a somebody. And being somebody to somebody else.

Finding that one person out there in the big wide world who you choose to be with...well, that's something else entirely. Love is scary and magical and bittersweet and special and hard and wonderful and the best thing that can ever happen to you in life.

She'd found her love formula after all. It was as beautifully simple as all the best formulas: find someone you love who loves you right back.

You can't stop people from morphing the truth. It's human nature. I blow-dry my hair, put on make-up, wear high-heels. I've laughed at jokes told by men who simply weren't that funny. We create an outer identify to hide our innate vulnerability. But even deeper, it springs from the most primal desire we harbour.