"I knew I was being a coward, but sometimes you have to be a coward, don't you? There's no point in being brave if you're just going to get destroyed. Say you walked round the corner and there are fifty Al Qaida there. Not even fifty. Five. Not even five. One, with a machine gun, would be enough. You might not feel good about tunning for your life, but what are your choises? Well, I had walkes round the corner, and there was an Al Qaida with a machine gun, except he was just a baby, and he didn't actually have a machine gun, if you think about it, because Roof was every bit as deadly to my chances of going to college to do art as an Al Qaida operative. And actually, Alice was another Al Qaida, plus also her mum and dad, plus also my mum, because when she found out she would literally kill me dead. So that was five Al Qaida waiting round the corner. One would have been enough to send you running off to Hastings or wherever. "
"I hate time. It never does what you want it to."
~Slam by Nick Hornby
It was a good novel, it has been a while when I read it though but I still remember that part well. It made me to think even though it wasn't my favourite book and it was boring sometimes and I don't like that kind of writing language in a way, it was annoying to read it. But at least it reminded me that I don't want to be a teen mom.. But I liked Sam, the hero of the story, even though he is a bit naive and not ready to be a dad, but I guess that would be normal for anybody who's 15 or 16 years old.. It is kinda cute in a way that his idol is Tony Hawk and they way he talks to him. I don't understand about skating (it's his hobby) but it doesn't matter, those things were well explained for us dummies too. :D
I hope Sam's life is all good now when he's a bit older and the baby too. :)) :D
