Dad Quote 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’.”

— 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…

— Joe Dunthorne

“One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Joe Dunthorne

To us and a wonderful evening of love making.

— Joe Dunthorne

“I am running low on solutions.”

— Joe Dunthorne

...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.

— Joe Dunthorne