"Funny bits"

 

Here are the sentences and passages from the book which I liked best.

 

 

Chapter 8: Marcus throws a sandwich at a duck and hits it while he's at a single parents meeting. When the others come to him he says: "I think I've killed a duck!"

 

Chapter 19: Marcus meets Ellie for the first time. Ellie says: "How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?"

 

Chapter 19: Marcus looks at Ellie’s sweat-shirt. "Marcus looked at the picture on the sweat-shirt again, even though that meant sort of looking at Ellie's tits."

 

Chapter 19: Ellie wears a Kurt Cobain-sweat-shirt, and Marcus doesn't know him, so Ellie takes the mickey by telling him: "That's Kirk O'Bane, he plays for Manchester United!"

 

Chapter 30: Will thinks about his relationship with Rachel. "His relationship was weird... . The weird thing was that they still hadn't had sex... !"

 

Chapter 33: For the first time Marcus expresses his opinion in front of his father: "I suppose you are a useless father and that doesn't help a kid very much, but you'd have been a useless father wherever you were living, so I don't see what difference it makes."

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