He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

You just have to belong. Long to be.

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.