"For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room."
"This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today."
"She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery."
"Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you"
"Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry."
"This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today."