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1 " De twee vrouwen namen een grote hap spaghetti en de ober koos precies dat moment uit om terug te wippen en te vragen of alles naar wens was, waarop ze beiden hevig knikten en oergeluiden maakten. "Dat leren ze op de oberschool," zei Stevie nadat ze doorgeslikt had. "Wachten tot iedereen de mond vol heeft gepropt en het dan vragen. Dat vinden ze gewéldig. Het hoogtepunt van hun werk. "
― Milly Johnson , The Birds & the Bees
2 " Oh, er…I had to borrow some of it.’ He wriggled a bit and looked more sheepish than a freezer full of mutton on an Australian farm. "
3 " Eddie scratched his head. It was all harder to understand than a David Lynch film. "
4 " People need to have someone to focus their anger on, Adam. It’s easier blaming outsiders than the ones you love. "
5 " Sometimes when we’re in pain, we’ll snatch at anything that promises to stop it. Hope makes us see what we want to see "
6 " So if I say no, what are ye going to do? Refund me to death? "
7 " Go right ahead,’ said Stevie in her best part nice-hostess and part bugger-off voice. "
8 " So when did you last save the universe then?’ said Adam. ‘Thursday,’ said Danny, and off he trotted to watch the rest of Crocodile Dundee. "
