...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.