That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.