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1 " She wasn't the kind who cared about signs, she moved through the world as if she had a right to be there - anywhere, everywhere. Like a woman in a book, like a girl in a song. "
― Tony Parsons , Stories We Could Tell
2 " Everything ends. It does. Sooner or later. This - all this - it has to end sometime. "
3 " Then they lay there in silence for a while, listening to the rain, watching it come straight down, feeling it cool their sweating faces. You couldn't avoid all of it, not with the missing roof, but after being chase by Teds, it was so refreshing that Terry sighed. And he thought how good it was to be still, to be quiet for once, to be with people you knew so well that there was no real need to talk, and to just feel the sweet kick of the sulphate in your veins, to enjoy that rush of pure euphoria, and to let it all go for a while "
4 " ... he was totally in thrall to the face of the girl in front of him. She stunned him. She paralysed him. Just being in the presence of that face made him pause, his tongue tied with self-consciousness. But she made it easy for him "
5 " What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever?And she told him. "
6 " And then the old man was standing in the doorway, still in his white coat and his French Foreign Legion hat, blinking at his wife and his son and his son’s girlfriend, young Misty.“Guess what?” Terry’s mum said, as if she had been saving this up for a long time. “Guess what, Granddad?” Yes, his father looked ancient these days. But when he heard the news and it had started to sink in, that kind, exhausted face lit up with a smile, and it was a smile that Terry knew would last the old man for years. "
7 " I know what that is, 'he said. 'That's drugs, that is.''You're a genius, aren't you?''Dad will kill you''Then I'll be dead.'Then they were both silent, thinking about the room down the hall that no one was allowed to touch, that no one was allowed to enter, and the brother who you were not alloewd to mention in this house. The brother you could't even fucking mention "
