“You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile.”

“It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry.”

“RememberLove doesn't make the world go roundSex makes it spin for a second or twoIf you're luckySo do chips, sausage rolls and girls in short skirtsRememberLoveLays its fingers on your heartAnd holds itUnder waterRemember thatWhen the next girl smiles”

“You're always saying people don't like you but people can't like something that's not there.”

“Tell me about the sharks, Rosie," Dave said, trying to cheer me up. "Well, you can't tell how dangerous they are from their size. That's all wrong. The big ones don't always feed on meat." "How do you tell a dangerous one?" he asked. "Their teeth." "So what, you ask them to smile?" "If you're stupid enough to come close and see them smile," I said, thinking of Luke, "then you deserve everything you get.”

“You're weird," she said, falling asleep. "But that's okay. It makes me seem normal.”

“I can't believe you're still mad at me," Ed says."You grabbed my arse.""You broke my nose.""You broke his nose?" Jazz asks. "You grabbed her arse?""It was two years ago-""Two years, four months, and eight days," I tell him."-and I was fifteen, and I slipped and she broke my nose.""Wait a minute. How do you slip onto someone's arse?"Jazz asks."I meant slipped up. I slipped up and she broke my nose.""You're lucky that's all I broke," I say."You're lucky I didn't call the police."Leo, Dylan, and Daisy slid into the booth. "Did you guys know that Lucy broke Ed's nose? Jazz asks.Ed closes his eyes silently and bangs his head on the wall.”