“You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.”

“I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.”

“I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...”

“Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.”

“I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second I thought I could see pictures in them, like I was looking right inside her to where her memories were. She smiled, and I wondered if she knew what I'd seen or if she could see the pictures I kept hidden inside myself.”

“I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.”

“You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.”