John Larkin

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”

“Creepo just smiles, like a python at a cornered rat.”

“You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.”

“Despite the post-it note with her phone number on it, shes already little more than a fading memory. They all are.”

“A train full of shadows. Of living ghosts. On a journey to nowhere.”

“In the dead hour the ghosts creep out of the bush and go howling across the dunes, screaming their unfinished business to the night. But I'm nothing to them so they ignore me.”

“People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.”

“Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.”

“Fortunately...or unfortunately...through years of neglect I'm actually as skinny as an anorexic broomstick.”

“I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.”

“We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.”