“You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.”

“I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.”

“Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!”

“They'd manage. Her ghost from the future had said so. He'd been right about the bad coming. Now she had to trust good would come as well.”

“I waved and cried and smiled at the same time like Mum and Mrs Mack, so Sandy and Jeff remember us smiling not sobbing as they left.”

“You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.”

“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just read about them. I want my life.”