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Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If...more

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It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was th...more

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And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to...more

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When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonde...more

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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the res...more

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When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed...more

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There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became...more

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my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' s...more

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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-dr...more

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unha...more