The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.