High Fidelity
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I hate time. It never does what you want it to.
There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.
Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".
When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess
I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.
I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.
I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.
It seems to make a difference to some girls. If you say something that isn't sexist to the right sort ofgirl, she likes you more. Say one of your mates is going on about how all girls are stupid, and you say 'not all girls are stupid,' then it can make you look good. There have to be girls listening, though, obviously. Otherwise it's a waste of time.
Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?
Seeing as he wasn’t very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting.
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