“It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry.”

“You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile.”

“I know a few things about ghosts. The only way to stop them getting inside you is to spend every second of the day thinking about something else. Fighting like that makes you tired, and it doesn't matter how hard you fight anyway. They chip till they make a crack, and before you know it there's a ghost squatter in your living room. It's hard to get them out. Hard because they settle in. Hard because you like the company.”

“It isn't the smallness of this place that bothers me. It's the grey that's worked its way into the walls. It's the stains on the carpet from some other life that came and left before ours. Bert always said he'd give me a good deal on paint but some places take burning down and rebuilding to make them shiny."-Ed, page 10”

“RememberLove doesn't make the world go roundSex makes it spin for a second or twoIf you're luckySo do chips, sausage rolls and girls in short skirtsRememberLoveLays its fingers on your heartAnd holds itUnder waterRemember thatWhen the next girl smiles”

“She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.”

“You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it.”