Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.