He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time.

Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.