I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.