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“If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?”
“Maybe we've grown out of each other.”
“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Let...”
“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.''Treated like what?'She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”
“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”
“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever”
“Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because ...”
“By the time Albie is my age I will be long gone, or, best-case scenario, barricaded into my living module with enough rations to see out my days. But outside, I imagine vast, unregulated factories ...”
“All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pu...”
“You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.”
“Keep the change," he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?”
“Sometimes, when its going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on s...”
“Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.”
“Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.”
“the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity tat it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley”
“Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.”
“And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?""Sometimes it is.”
“Maybe they're in love.""And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?""Sometines it is.”
“I'm just not going to do it so that we can say that we've done it. And I'm not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is 'please don't tell anyone' or 'let's forget it ever happened'....”
“I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.”
