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"God. Here it is. I think you're scared of being happy, Emma. I think you think that the natural way of things is for your life to be grim and grey and dour and to hate your job, hate where you live, not to have success or money or God forbid a boyfriend. In fact I'll go further and say that I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because you can make a joke out of it. Is this annoying you? I bet it is. Well, I've only just started"

ONE DAY - David Nicholls