You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.