“Despite the post-it note with her phone number on it, shes already little more than a fading memory. They all are.”

“You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.”

“People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.”

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”

“I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.”

“Fortunately...or unfortunately...through years of neglect I'm actually as skinny as an anorexic broomstick.”

“Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.”