“Keep in touch.I suddenly realized how annoying that expression was. Like, Now it's your job to stay in contact with me. It said, I'm really just too lazy.I started to write back, to keep in touch, but decided I'd be lazy as well.”
“I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does. "How's it hanging?" Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!”
“If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time.""I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin."Just then my door creaked open.Billy's expression turned to surprise."Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested."You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it.""It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.”
“Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late.”
“I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just disappear from his life without a word. It was okay for him to keep in contact with Georgie and my mum, but not once did he pick up the phone or write to me. Like I was fucking nothing to him. Like I'm nothing to no one.”
“It's hard to keep up with your children,' he said. 'It means keeping up with everything new. And you stay in your rut and then it's too late. Before you know it you are old.”