Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

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.

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

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.