“A lot of fresh starts and disappointing endings”

“The One-Two was located on a dead end street in a dead end town and was a permanent, self-storage bin for broken dreams.”

“developed Irish Alzheimer’s over the years, which is to say that they failed to remember anything but their grudges.”

“She was ready to fall in love with someone but she wanted to fall within the right tax bracket.”

“Two years of constantly being on the run-both literally and figuratively-was beginning to exact a permanent toll.”

“There are only a few natural forces in this world that can make a rational man go against his judgment: love and greed.”

“My conclusions, on this point, are as follows: when the Law Commission says committal of judgment debtors is an anomaly that cannot be justified and should be abolished; when it is common cause that there is a general international move away from imprisonment for civil debt, of which the present committal proceedings are an adapted relic; when such imprisonment has been abolished in South Africa, save for its contested form as contempt of court in the magistrate's court; when the clauses concerned have already been interpreted by the Courts as restrictively as possible, without their constitutionally offensive core being eviscerated; when other tried and tested methods exist for recovery of debt from those in a position to pay; when the violation of the fundamental right to personal freedom is manifest, and the procedures used must inevitably possess a summary character if they are to be economically worthwhile to the creditor, then the very institution of civil imprisonment, however it may be described and however well directed its procedures might be, in itself must be regarded as highly questionable and not a compelling claimant for survival.”