“Suki is the nation’s ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.”

“He hoped to be successful, to make his parents proud and to sleep with more than one woman at the same time, but how to make these all compatible? He wanted to feature in magazine articles, and hoped one day for a retrospective of his work, without having any clear notion of what that work might be. He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.”

“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.”

“And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.”

“So - whatever happened to you?''Life. Life happened.”

“Life is about to change if only because it must.”

“I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.”