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

“he wasn't who I thought he'd be. Mum stroked my hair and said, "Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they make you vomit."This did not comfort me.”

“He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.”

“Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. ”

“Not as bad! Not as bad! my mind tried to comfort me. It was true. This wasn't as bad. This wasn't the end of the world, not again. This was just the end of what little peace there was left behind. That was all.Not as bad, I agreed, then added, but bad enough.”

“For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.”