MMFD

• Instead of saying “You’re fat and you’re ugly.”, I’m going to say “You are the person who helped your mum out, who saved your best mate, who lives with an illness, but keeps on going.”

SKINS

• If you close your eyes, you see darkness. But if you keep them closed for long enough, and concentrate hard, you’ll see light. (effy)
• But you see, it’s like nobody’s fucking business. And it’s not exactly like anybody cares. (cassie)
• We make mistakes, but we’re free. (gen 3)
• I’ve been thinking about what Chris would have wanted me to say today. The advice he’d give me, which’d be something like, “Know what, babe? Fuck it. These guys know all about me. Tell them about someone different.” So I thought I’d say something about a hero of Chris’s: a man called Captain Joe Kittinger. In 1960, climbing into a foil balloon, Captain Joe ascended 32 kilometres into the stratosphere. And then, armed only with a parachute, he jumped out. He fell for four minutes and thirty-six seconds, reaching seven hundred and forty miles per hour before opening his parachute five kilometres above the Earth. It had never been done before, and it’s never been done since. He did it just because he could. And that’s why Chris loved him - because the thing about Chris was, he said yes. He said yes to everything. He loved everyone. And he was the bravest boy - man - I knew. And that was - he flung himself out of a foil balloon every day. Because he could. Because he was. And that’s why - and that’s why we, we loved him. (jal)
• Sometimes I think I was born backwards, you know, come out my mom the wrong way. I hear words go past me backwards. The people I should love, I hate. (effy)
• Yeah, I fell, but these guys caught me. It’s what mates do. Because it’s screwed up out there, I don’t know if you’ve been outside lately, but it is. But we have a go. Whatever comes, we have a good go. (gen 3)
• You can put any face behind a mask. But be careful, because someone else might be pretending. (Cassie)