Just Like You

by Nick Hornby

She could have gone to a supermarket, of course, but then she would be Letting Local Shops Down.

Cute use of capitalization

this was the line that he regretted the most. Where had it come from? An old film? A book he’d had to study? He’d been groping around for something that sounded grown-up, but he’d shot right through adulthood and out the other side.

And maybe there was no future in it, but there was a present, and that’s what life consists of.

Maybe there was only wondering about wondering, which had to be as good a definition of self-consciousness as any.

God had put all those bus stops between his old home and his new one for a reason. It didn’t matter what he felt, though, because Lucy called her anyway.