“Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.”

“I didn't know his age or how he liked his tea, I was wearing a terrible coat and I was drunk as a stoat - but this moment felt like it. The one I'd been waiting patiently for since I was a little girl. I'd worked so hard, for so long, at being ok with being single, but all of the things I'd told myself about independence were disappearing rapidly into the cold night. Right now, he felt like the only person who mattered in the whole world.”

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”

“But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.”

“Angel: If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.”

“That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.”