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"Next question. Slow and sensual or fast and filthy?" "Depends how much alcohol is involved and whether you've been getting on my nerves or not."

"You don't ever have to say I love you back, I don't care, I just wish I knew how to make it so you don't hate me, cos loving someone ain't the same as not hating them.

He's standing in the kitchen in his oldest softest jeans and a cardigan of thick blue and grey stripes that Valentine knitted for him six years ago. These are his slob clothes, his no-way-am-I-leaving-the-house clothes. Valentine couldn't possibly be more of a contrast if he tried. [...] He looks like a cock. He doesn't belong in Lindsay's kitchen. He doesn't really belong in Lindsay's life.

It's so difficult matching up what he knows of the Valentines now with what he thought he knew before.

manties!!! I knew it!!! Finally!!! Aren’t I the happiest girl in the world? 😁😁😁

”You've got girls' underwear on."
”Well, yeah. Do you like it?" He wriggles in place. Lindsay's got the predictable urge to slap him there until he's blazing red through all the layers of gauzy black. Valentine knows it too, twisting back to look over his shoulder

"Do you feel better, though?" "Not really. I don't know. Yes. I think so." "How did I ever think you're sooooo brilliant and self-assured and you always know what you're doing?" "I do, most of the time. It's just... you. Ripping my axis out and sticking it somewhere it doesn't belong so I spin all off-kilter." "Are you saying you wanna be the taker for a bit?" "I'm hanging up now."