You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.