Marian Keyes Quote
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 ♥elavanilla♥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.
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 ♥elavanilla♥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.
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About Marian Keyes
Keyes became known for her novels Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Anybody Out There, and This Charming Man, which, although written in a light and humorous style, cover themes including alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement, and domestic violence. More than 35 million copies of her novels have been sold, and her works have been translated into 33 languages. Her writing has won both the Irish Popular Fiction Book and the Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year, each on one occasion, at the Irish Book Awards.