“Things change, but they stay the same.”

“That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.”

“He’d known Lily forever. Or for as long as he could remember, which was basically the same thing.”

“And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.”

“Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.”

“Almost like being in the nightmare, that same feverish blur of the world slipping off its axis, but this time he was the one in control, this time he was the nightmare.”

“No one knew.Then Lily’s mum knew, of course.Then Lily knew.And then everyone knew. Everyone. Which changed the whole world in a single day.And he was never going to forgive her for that.”