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> [I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-don-t-know-if-i-ve-come-of-age-but-i-m-certainly-older-now-i-feel/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/203/joe-dunthorne-14534_age_i-don-t-know-if-i-ve-come-of-age-but-i-m_11469.png)

## More by Joe Dunthorne

> [“Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is ‘mitchio yn y dre’.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/our-welsh-teacher-thinks-he-is-young-he-tells-us-that-the-welsh-for/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-don-t-know-if-i-ve-come-of-age-but-i-m-certainly-older-now-i-feel/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/one-more-word-that-may-be-useful-in-the-heat-of-passion-dong-dong/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/my-mother-tells-me-i-do-not-chew-my-food-enough-she-says-i-am-making/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“I tell my parents I'm going out for pudding. They think this might be a nickname for heroin.Mum makes the international face for 'is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-tell-my-parents-i-m-going-out-for-pudding-they-think-this-might-be/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“I authorize an air strike that reduces my street to rubble; I fold Swansea Bay like an enormous omelette and scoff it all”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-authorize-an-air-strike-that-reduces-my-street-to-rubble-i-fold/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-spin-around-on-the-swivel-chair-and-look-up-at-the-ceiling-oliver/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“I want the evening upon which we lose our collective virginities to be special. I'm no parthenologist but I suspect that Jordana's virginity is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-want-the-evening-upon-which-we-lose-our-collective-virginities-to/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“Oliver, we’ve got something to tell you,” Dad says, dumping a cardboard box full of garden waste into a toad green mangler. Unlike the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/oliver-we-ve-got-something-to-tell-you-dad-says-dumping-a-cardboard/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [To us and a wonderful evening of love making.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/to-us-and-a-wonderful-evening-of-love-making/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“I am running low on solutions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-am-running-low-on-solutions/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/for-my-last-birthday-dad-bought-me-a-pocket-sized-collins-english/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-want-to-grab-her-collarbones-as-if-they-were-handlebars/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [“Seducing Jordana was solid – she's got such high standards – but when I finally got the snogs in it was all worth it."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/seducing-jordana-was-solid-she-s-got-such-high-standards-but-when-i/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

> [I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dunthorne/i-find-that-the-only-way-to-get-through-life-is-to-picture-myself-in/)

[Joe Dunthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dunthorne/)

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