You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything.

Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.

No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.

Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.