The Man I Think I Know Quotes

“Details are important when a day is special to you. But the difficult thing is that quite often you do not know a day is special until long after it is over.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“It’s the best feeling in the world knowing there’s someone in your corner. That no matter what and no matter how badly you mess up, they will always be on your side.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“It’s funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“You leak stories about the other side to the media and that way your client seems less guilty.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“all thoughts, no matter how altruistic, always end up being self-centred in some way if you give them long enough,”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“it looks a little eccentric or at the very least as though her washing machine’s broken and this outfit is made up of the only clean clothes she could find.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it. After a while you just say it to yourself in your head like, ‘I had better not do that, just to be on the safe side.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“sometimes I struggle to get the thoughts out of my head because they are stuck behind one another like cars in a traffic jam.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“Martha kisses me on the cheek too, only she does not wipe away her lipstick afterwards. When she is not looking, I touch where she put her lips. It feels sticky but in a nice way. Like she has left part of her kiss behind for me to find later tonight, when I am in bed and dropping off to sleep.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“Even thinking about working makes me feel queasy. This I know makes me sound a lot like I have no ambition. It presents me as almost having given up on life. It suggests that I’m content to just exist like some corpulent bluebottle basking in the sunshine on the windowsill of life.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“The thing about work is that it’s a habit. If you do it enough. it sort of sticks so that you feel wrong if you’re not doing something.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

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― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know

“I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it.”
― Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know