"'Well, you said that you were going to have relationships and then you were going to get married.'
'I didn't say I was going to get married.'
'Technically I suppose you didn't, no.' (Actually I bloody didn't, either)
'But?'
She put her head on one side and was pushing the crumbs of her lunch around the plate. Then she looked up. Why can you always tell when people are going to say nasty things to you?
'But you're not odd enough not to.'"
—Julian Barnes, Metroland
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