All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.