You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.
David NichollsYou were laughing at where I work."
"So? You do!"
"Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
David NichollsSometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
David NichollsFor some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .
David NichollsSo - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.
Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
David NichollsSo do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?
Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?
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