No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.