Joe Dunthorne Quotes
I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.
That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.
Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.
For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.
There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.
I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?
Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there's no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing's wrong.
It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.
I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.
He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.
Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.
Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama, " she says. "Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?
I would never say snog. I would say osculate.” She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?