“...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.”

“I'm not saying that you think about it all the time. It just leaves you different than it found you.”

“No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.”

“I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.”

“Everyone else is thinking about themselves as much as you are thinking about yourself and so therefore no one has any time to think about you.”

“Look, girls and boys are different. Girls like to be touched twenty times a day in a nonsexual way to feel good about themselves - that is why I tickle you and link arms with you - but boys think about sex, snogging and football, and also snogging whilst playing football. Simple.”