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41 " How about you then, Brian, any action?'
'Not really.' This sounds a bit feeble, so I add, nonchalantly, There is this girl, Alice, and she's invited me to stay with her tomorrow, at her cottage, so . . .'
'Her cottage? says Spencer. 'What is she? A milkmaid?'
'You know, a house, in the country, her parents' . . .'
'So you're shagging her then?' asks Tone.
'It's platonic.'
'What's platonic mean then?' asks Spencer, even though he knows.
'It means she won't let him shag her,' says Tone. "

― David Nicholls , Starter for Ten

42 " ...you know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do... "

― David Nicholls , Starter for Ten

43 " the lagers are warm and the takeaway's cold "

― David Nicholls , Starter for Ten

44 " and I have a tiny little moment of anxiety, because I can't remember whether or not we're meant to be boycotting mars bars. "

― David Nicholls , Starter for Ten

45 " dipping them into a Pyrex contact-lens of ketchup, "

― David Nicholls , Starter for Ten

46 " indignantly, as if I’d just invited everyone back to mine for heroin and "

― David Nicholls , Starter for Ten