Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon

And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.