Carole Matthews Quotes

“Men and women can't be just friends. Two minutes ago we were talking just like friends and the next minute I'd stepped over the boundary and we were discussing things that friends shouldn't. It's only another small step for mankind for us to be doing things that friends shouldn't either. And by tomorrow I'll have forgotten what I said and we'll be back to boss and secretary again. Yet you'll think of it every time you see my desk piled high with paperwork.
That's the difference between men and women.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“Could she really even consider doing this to another woman? Another woman with children...”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“And why was it when you finally met the man of your dreams you invariably found yourself in the middle of your worst nightmare?”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“He had tried. Not to ring her, but to not ring her. He had tried not to think about her. He had tried not to pursue her.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“He was a married man - it was too cruel, too calculating, too bloody unfair of him to pursue her in cold blood.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“You don't hold hands with people uniess there's something going on.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“It's going nowhere, Jamie. Stop it now.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“You can blow the whistle at any time you like. And the sooner you do it, the less painful it will be. Don't wait until you crash into the buffers and there's a mangled wreck around you.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“Love is like a virus. It's totally debilitating and it takes a hell of a long time to recover from. And when you're low it'll hit you again?”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“I'm sorry, I really didn't mean for this to happen. You deserve someone far better than me. Someone who is free to give you what you want.”
― Carole Matthews

“If we were talking about wise, I wouldn't be here at all.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“I wish there was another way I could do this. I wish I didn't care about my wife and the kids. I wish I could walk away from you and not give you a second thought. And more than anything, I wish I could forget who I am and make mad passionate love to you and damn the consequences.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“I'm in a deep state of confusion and emotional strain as it is. If I even consider placing one more card on the top, the whole wobbly pile will collapse?”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“She was outside his family unit and why did he need her? ”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“Look, I'm really sorry. There's nothing I can do about it. This is exactly how I feel when you let me down. It can't be helped.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“You can’t end an affair and then still go on seeing each other — it doesn't work like that.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“Come out and say goodbye like an adult.'
'I don't feel like an adult. I was going to be brave and sophisticated and light-hearted but I can't.'
'I love you.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“I wish you weren't married, that we weren't hurting anyone by loving each other, and I wish more than anything that when I opened my eyes you'd still be here?”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“Life was nothing but a bitter journey on the rails to nowhere. A series of horrible tacky stations, unexpected delays and, sometimes along the way, the odd devastation of a major derailment. That's what he had been - a major derailment on life's tortured track.”
― Carole Matthews

“It was horrifying how nice she sounded. Pamela wanted to hate her and be set against her but she couldn't find it in her heart.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“If Jamie had been heartless, he would be here right now and not with his wife and children where he belonged.”
― Carole Matthews, Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal

“Want to is perhaps overstating the situation. Have to is more accurate.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“I’m a firm believer that everything in life happens for a reason.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“Sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t come easily.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“It’ll be fine. It will all be fine. And I wonder if I say it often enough, whether it will be.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“But I don’t want to get used to it. I want to sleep through the night once more and not wake up in a cold sweat at three o’clock in the morning wondering.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“As you get older, you get used to a certain level of comfort that’s so hard to give up.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“But I'm older than him and, by default, supposedly wiser. I know that love isn't always enough.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“But you must promise me that you'll never sell it again, whatever happens. If you need money, come to me?”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“Love makes you do very silly things”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up