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I am drawn to the ocean; I find solace in its mystery.

I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.

I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.

I am running low on solutions.

I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.

One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived.

When I am very sad, I tend towards symbolism.

The ocean is six miles deep.

I bought a packet of Trojan Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: 'No. 1 in AMERICA'. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.

He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

I tell myself not to feel sexually threatened. I am of no special interest; he could just as easily be angling for the printer.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate. She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Your diary should be a nepenthe.

Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.

To us and a wonderful evening of love making.

For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

Are we making a bomb?"
"This is a trust exercise, like in drama," she says.
"Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is 'mitchio yn y dre'.

It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

I remembered his expression remained not exactly bored so much as philosophically separate

Her eyebrows were so blonde they were almost invisible, making it difficult for her to look angry, apologetic or quizzical.

The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.

I authorize an air strike that reduces my street to rubble; I fold Swansea Bay like an enormous omelette and scoff it all