Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
17 quotes
"Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better."
"If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!"
"Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after."
"My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared."
"If my like for you was a footy crowd, you'd be deaf cos of the roar.And if my like for you were a boxer, there'd be a dead guy lying on the floor.And if my like for you were sugar, you'd lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let's just say you'd be spending plenty."
"Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls."
"You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem,’ I tell him."
"The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful."
"Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin."
"Why do want to find him so bad?’ I ask after a while, but she’s not listening. I watch her a bitlonger. ‘Why do you want to find him so bad?’ I ask again.She blinks and comes out of her dream. She flicks the band on her wrist. ‘I just do.’ - Ed Skye"
"I took the money and passed the box across the counter and said politely, ‘Your choice of colourreally lacks style.’ I smiled and Beth laughed and the guy asked to see my manager.I got Bert and he leant over the box and looked at the paint and said, ‘Ed was being polite. Yourchoice of colour is shit."
"Don't go confusing stupidity with guts."
"I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business."
"Tonight’s going to be one of those things that seem to last forever."
"You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it."
"Love and romance are things worth waiting for."
"Were you in love with Emma?" I ask."I was hard-core obsessed," he says without thinking about it. "Not in love." "What's the difference?"He's about to throw a stone at ta yard light but stops. "Prison," he says, and puts the stone in his pocket."