“I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck.There can be no other explanation.”

“... Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts....”

“So you don’t fancy meeting up again?’ Max persisted, though Neve didn’t know why, because she thought she’d made her position perfectly clear. ‘Swap war stories?’‘I don’t have any war stories,’ Neve said, and in that moment she felt that she never would. That every night would be spent creeping round her flat in her socks with the telly turned down so low that she could barely hear it, so in the end she’d have no other option but to escape into the pages of books where there were other girls falling in and out of love but not her. Never her. She stared down at the scuffed toes of her faux Ugg boots in sudden and tired defeat.‘If you don’t have any war stories, then at least you don’t have any war wounds,’ Max said, so quietly that Neve had to strain her ears to catch his words. ‘Take my number.”

“Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit, organic network of like-minded souls who might get pushed to the ground for the way we think and the way we look and because we’re not afraid of who we are, but my God we’re looking up at the stars.”

“What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom”

“My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.”

“Sometimes it frightens me how much I enjoy behaving like a complete cow.”