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It feels, even to me, like I'm being intimate: I speak quietly, slowly, thoughtfully, I express regret, I say nice things about Laura, I hint at a deep ocean of melancholy just below the surface. But it's all bollocks, really, a cartoon sketch of a decent, sensitive guy which does the trick because I am in a position to invent my own reality and because — I think — Marie has already decided she likes me.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:06PM
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Dimitris
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I'm just trying to show you that you've lived half your life, but for all you've got to show for it you might as well be nineteen, and I'm not talking about money or property or furniture.'
— Jul 04, 2017 03:11PM
Dimitris
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And all the time you're keeping your options open, you're closing them off. You're thirty-six.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:10PM
Dimitris
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'Everything's too hard. Maybe another time I would have had the guts to be on my own, but not now I haven't.'
— Jul 04, 2017 03:09PM
Dimitris
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'It's no wonder we're all in such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. And it's much worse in a real life, because it's not just snogging and bunk beds, is it? There's all this as well.' She gestures through the windscreen at the field and the bus stop and a man walking his dog, but I know what she means.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:09PM
Dimitris
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It must be hard for parents, I guess, when they see that things aren't working out for their children, but that their children can no longer be reached by the old parental routes, because those roads are now much too long.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:08PM
Dimitris
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Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:08PM
Dimitris
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My dad is a bit dim but something of a know-all, which is a pretty fatal combination; you can tell from his silly, fussy beard that he's going to be the sort who doesn't talk much sense and won't listen to any reason. My mum is just a mum, which is an unforgivable thing to say in any circumstance,
— Jul 04, 2017 03:07PM
Dimitris
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I tell her that I think she's beautiful, which I sort of do, and talented, which I definitely do. And we talk like this for a while, congratulating ourselves on our good fortune and each other for our good taste, which is the way these post-kiss pre-sex conversations always go, in my experience;
— Jul 04, 2017 03:06PM
Dimitris
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The evening goes with that sort of breathtaking joke precision, where you can kind of see what's supposed to happen but you can't believe it's ever going to get there, even though afterwards it seems obvious.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:05PM
Dimitris
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I'm really up after the triumph with Laura, and seeing as Marie has only ever seen me tongue-tied and grumpy, she must wonder what has happened. Let her wonder. It's not often that I get the chance to be enigmatic and perplexing.
— Jul 04, 2017 03:04PM
