“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”

“Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.”

“He never knew a single second could be expanded into something timeless and so archaic. It shook him to his core – there were no words for it.”

“The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.”

“We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...”

“He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes ‘love’.”

“She almost never said his name. Because it made the dreams too real. Because it made the loneliness too tangible when she woke up.”