I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

She misses him more now than when he was away

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?