Times in I Was Born For This where Rowan+Jimmy (and the occasional Bliss) really don’t know Lister at all. (an incomplete list)
“Wait, don’t tell me,” says Bliss, holding up a hand. “He’s already throwing up in the bathroom. Or he’s already found someone to have sex with.” (page 87)
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“You’re the one who does this stuff all the time.” [they were talking about Jimmy kissing Magnet during Lister’s party] (page 93)
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“Fuck off, thinking you can help us, thinking you have any fucking understanding of what it means to care about someone, you fucking sex addict!"(page 103)
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“How d’you get away with it?” I ask him.
“With what?”
“Getting with so many people.” (page 125)
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“We thought he was having sex with someone, or several someones, at every party we went to. And we’ve been to a lot of parties.” (page 127)
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"Neither of you get it. It's different for me." He turns to me with one last pleading look. "You and Rowan have each other, but you have to see that its different for me. Being Lister Bird."
I just shake my head. "What does that mean?"
The final bit of hope in his expression drops, and he walks away from the bed and towards the door.
"Why else would anyone want to be around me?" he says. "I'm Lister Bird. Why else would anyone want to be around me other than to get with me?" (page 130)
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“You know what he’s like. He’s reckless. He does what he wants.” (page 322)
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“Why are you always like this? You just don’t give a shit about literally anything, do you?” (short story at the end)
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special mention: “If I [Lister] tried to talk to Rowan about serious stuff, he’d probably just roll his eyes or laugh at me.” (short story at the end)
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— Don't you usually sit in the last carriage? she asked.- Hum yes.She raised her eyebrows.— You live in the neighborhood, don't you? - She asked.- AND.- Across the street?- I think so.
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I don’t want people to be worried about me. There’s nothing to worry about. I don’t want people to try and understand why I’m the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don’t understand yet. I don’t want people to interfere. I don’t want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.
Solitaire, Alice Oseman
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All ready read Volume 5 and This Winter. They're shorter and one is a graphic novel/ comic style, so its not that much to read. Same with This winter, the smallest out of all the books.
Im just so happy to have something i can enjoy reading AND feel represented in some way in these books. Gonna read Solitaire, then Loveless. Then the other two i have. Their bigger books and i know i need to set a day ot two aside to read those.
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What if the stars in Aled’s room (where he painted the universe) represent all the paths Aled could go down and his mum painting over them in radio silence represents how she was controlling his life and chose one path for aled
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