“he needed the security of other bodies.”

“he needed the security of other bodies.”

“Lysander saw that they were displaying all the timeworn and conventional feints and poor disguises of lovers meeting in a public place and hoping the real nature of their relationship would be invisible.”

“The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.”

“Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark”