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61 " It's just easier to push people away than watch them leave "
― Alexis Hall , Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)
62 " Will it... will it ever stop hurting?" "Non... But it will stop mattering. "
63 " He joined me on the bed, crawling across the covers like a tiger who’d been to Abercrombie and Fitch. "
64 " My working theory was that getting a dessert from a vegan restaurant was like having sex with someone less attractive you-they knew it was a tough sell, so they tried harder. "
65 " This isn't about strength," I told him. "It's about who you're choosing to make happy. "
66 " Course you haven't. Just need to get back on the horse, that's all.""I'm not sure the horse is what I remember it being. Horses get old, too, you know. Sometimes, it's kinder to leave them out in the field, eating apples. "
67 " For the sake of verisimilitude. "
68 " Okay, I know you can’t see it, but I’m holding up the fetishisation card.” “What does that card even look like?” “It looks like two adorable men in sweaters holding hands under a rainbow.” “I thought you wanted to hold hands with an adorable man under a rainbow.” “I do, but the fact you want it almost as much as I do is what makes it creepy. "
69 " And if we let happy things make us unhappy when they stopped, there would be no point having happy things "
70 " I’ve never seen the point of fancy dress parties. You have two choices: either you make a massive effort and wind up looking like a dick, or you make no effort and wind up looking like a dick. And my problem, as always, was not knowing what kind of dick I wanted to be. I’d pretty much committed to the no-effort strategy. "
71 " Yeah, and I wanted to help him with them, like he helped me.” “That is his choice, though. Some people, they do not want to be helped. "
72 " Everybody tells you that when you're young, you think you'll live forever. What they don't tell you is that when you're old, you think the same "
73 " Someone else’s actions may affect you. But what other people choose to do is about them. "
74 " Life with Mum and Judy had been this bubble I’d kept other people away from, partly because I was worried they wouldn’t understand, but also because, I guess, in some odd way, I wanted it to stay mine. This private space where Mum would always be cooking—or saying—something awful, and she and Judy would always be far too into whatever hobby or book or TV show had caught their attention this week, and I would always be welcome and safe and loved. "
75 " As long as the Beetle Drive is successful, you may go to whatever bars you please and wear whatever mammalian appendages you like. "
76 " There was an opportunity here to take the high road. I chose not to, "I 'd prefer you didn't talk to me at all. "
77 " There should really be a word for the feeling you get when you do a thing you don’t particularly want to do to support somebody else but then realise they didn’t actually need you and nobody would have noticed if you’d stayed home in your pyjamas eating Nutella straight from the jar. "
78 " This was why relationships sucked: they made you need shit you’d been perfectly happy not needing. "
79 " Now please, for the love of God, give us some money so we can save the bugs that eat shit. "
80 " he made you happy for a while, and now it is over. And if we let happy things make us unhappy when they stopped, there would be no point having happy things. "