"I can't believe how few records you have. It's pathetic, Dad."
"I know. Several movements in popular music culture have passed me by completely."
"You've got quite a lot of books, though."
"Not compared to some people."
"I'd never read a book if I didn't have to. Books are boring."
Timothy stops and looks at Liam gravely.
"I once heard Tim Henman say that on television," he says. "You know. The tennis player. I thought 'No, Tim, books contain all the magic of thought and imagination that great minds think up. If you can't find anything stimulating or interesting in any book ever written, I'm afraid it's you that's boring.' Say that you aren't bookish, as unfortunately seems to be the case with you, but don't ever say, in my presence, that books are boring.'
- Obstacles to Young Love
