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- He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or…
- Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his…
- And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of…
- She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love,…
- You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented…
- ...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she…
- This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
- For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM…
- you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay…
- 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…
- I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain…
- The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.
- The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit…
- All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny.…
- He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them…
- He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in…
- I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in some way or…
- …surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
- Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on…
- I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.
- Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN
- Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.
- This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and…
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