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

“Creepo just smiles, like a python at a cornered rat.”

“In the dead hour the ghosts creep out of the bush and go howling across the dunes, screaming their unfinished business to the night. But I'm nothing to them so they ignore me.”

“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.”

“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.”