People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.