It had this amazing spicy, pee-y smell.

He longed for the oblivion at the end of it, but lacked the courage to face the fall.

I read all the time so it’s difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

The only thing that isn’t free is you. You do as you’re told. You sit in your seat until they say ‘Stand’. You stay put til they say ‘Go’. Maybe that’s the way you like it. It’s easy. It’s all there. You don’t have to think about. You don’t even have to feel it.

Deborah felt his erection against her stomach and smiled up at him. She grabbed hold of his bum and moved him gently from side to side so that it rocked against her, twitching like Frankenstein’s monster in an electric storm.

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I’ve cut down on things as I was getting fat.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don’t have to behave like them, you don’t have to behave like anyone.

That’s her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she’s proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

She didn’t have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we’ve all been there. Perhaps that’s the reason we’re so hard on them.