For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.