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"All of the people in the room seemed to take so much for granted: that they would be invited to social events, that they would have friends and family to talk to, that they would fall in love, be loved in return, perhaps create a family of their own."

"A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

"But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on."

Didn't care for the relationship stuff in the first book and hoping that it's not going to take up a big chunk in this one again...

Finding out Roald Dahl was a RAF pilot and spy makes him even cooler.

As I'm reading, I realise that so many of the poems have Eddie in them, and then I remember that Eddie was the child who passed away in Michael Rosen's Sad Book.

"It's not always the brightest things that fetch the most money, Mr Brown," he had said.

How long will you remember being you?

How fitting it is to read a book with a character named "December" in the month of December.

"The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see."