About A Boy Flashcards
MARCUS [8 quotes]
‘he knew the moment her walked in that it was something he’d have to think about forever’
‘two wasn’t enough, that was the trouble’
‘I can’t believe how crap my parents are’
‘she actually laughed. That was his mother.’
‘I bloody hate Joni Mitchell’
‘people often thought Marcus was being funny when he wasn’t.’
‘We’re broke. You’re not. You pay.’
‘he’d still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.’
WILL [7 quotes]
‘his way of coping with the days was to think of activities as units of time’
‘he may not be proud of his lifelong lack of achievement’
‘life was, after all, like air’
‘no man is an island.. i’m bloody ibiza!’
‘I was the star of the Will Show’
‘will could feel that he was inside it, rather than looking at it through a window’
‘How cool was Will Freeman?’
FIONA [6 quotes]
‘Well I didn’t think I’d have to remember it, did I?’
‘You can’t just shut life out’
‘He learnt that she hadn’t really wanted to be a mother’
‘and I don’t know why being your mum isn’t enough for me, but it isn’t.’
‘I haven’t been a good mother to him. I’ve let things slide.’
‘Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus and got to stay away from the casualty ward’
ELLIE [6 quotes]
‘She could just blow up in his face any time’
‘he’ll do it, you know. They always do’
‘I’m always in trouble and I’ve never done anything wrong’
‘you’d like to think you do, but you don’t. You have too good a time’
‘less rude and mad? less violent? less bloody stupid?’
‘Did they tell you to do that? To look like me?’
