Цитаты из книги Моя легендарная девушка

This morning I was me and now I’m someone else, I thought to myself. Or is it this morning I was someone else and now I’m me?

It wasn’t like my father to use pop psychology to come up with a causal link between the divorce and my getting married. He didn’t believe in conditioning or influence of environment. He once told me that everyone should be responsible for their own actions and not getting enough love or attention was no excuse for being a thug. ‘You can’t excuse Hitler everything he did because his mother made him wear short trousers.’

Samuel Johnson said: ‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life…’

At school being called a ‘user’ was the third worst insult... < It meant you didn’t like people for who they were but what you could get from them.

In a way I suppose I’d used Aggi. I got someone to listen to me moan about life, watch episodes of Blackadder with, someone to kiss when I need warmth, someone to understand me and … < She got nothing. She was my Legendary Girlfriend bit I wasn’t her Legendary Boyfriend.

У неё есть "должность", а у меня - "работа". Это большая разница. "Должность" подразумевает решение сложных и интересных задач, "работа" нужна, чтобы не умереть с голоду.

I told her more details about Kate: how her laugh sounded like summer; her breath like the breeze on a beautiful day; and most importantly of all, how I truly believed she thought the world of me.

The thing is, I never learned my lesson. Even after Vicki, all I ever wanted from a girl was stability. My sole aim in life was to find a girlfriend who would make me feel so secure that I’d never have to worry about relationships again.

If I had known that one day I’d be in a flat with Aggi for the rest of my life I could have relaxed – I’d have been happy.

The man was in his mid-thirties, but it has to be said that I’m notorious for not being able to tell the age of most people over the age of eight.