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Ian is Emma’s coworker at a Tex-Mex restaurant. He eventually becomes her first serious relationship. He is a stand-up comedian who never stops making jokes, though very few of them are actually funny to Emma. At one point, he proposes to Emma, only for her to turn him down because she realizes she’ll never love him. Ian struggles for many years to accept this rejection, although eventually he moves on and starts his own family. He writes a letter trying to offer comfort to Dexter after Emma’s death.
Ian Quotes in One Day
The One Day quotes below are all either spoken by Ian or refer to Ian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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Scott blew air out through his mouth and waited for the groaning and fake retching to subside. A small, pale pink-eyed man with a degree in Business Management from Loughborough, he had once hoped to be a captain of industry.[…] He was thirty-nine years old, and it wasn’t meant to be this way.
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Chapter 7
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‘Ian, don’t do that,’ she said sharply.
‘What?’
‘Slip into your act. You don’t have to, you know.’
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Chapter 22
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There’s a general sense, as in all the calls, that the worst of the storm has passed. Dexter will probably never speak to Ian Whitehead again and this is fine too, for both of them.
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Ian Quotes in One Day
The One Day quotes below are all either spoken by Ian or refer to Ian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
Quotes
Scott blew air out through his mouth and waited for the groaning and fake retching to subside. A small, pale pink-eyed man with a degree in Business Management from Loughborough, he had once hoped to be a captain of industry.[…] He was thirty-nine years old, and it wasn’t meant to be this way.
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Chapter 7
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‘Ian, don’t do that,’ she said sharply.
‘What?’
‘Slip into your act. You don’t have to, you know.’
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Chapter 22
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There’s a general sense, as in all the calls, that the worst of the storm has passed. Dexter will probably never speak to Ian Whitehead again and this is fine too, for both of them.
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