What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoyi….

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding..

I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have tim….

Everything is going to be fine.” I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idio….

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself..

There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it..

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you could….

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface..

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining..

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free..