Quotes from "About a Boy"
The follwing qoutes (actually they're sentences we liked) you're going to read now, are the ones we, the class, liked the most or found most interesting.
Chapter 8: Marcus throws a sandwich at a duck and hits it while he's at a SPAT-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 Ellis 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: Marcus says for his first time 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."
by Sabrina
and Susanne