“I was the climber of a sheer cliff, dragging myself on bleeding hands towards a summit that I'd never reach and sometimes didn't want to reach. The things I cared about were the hooks I'd driven into the rock face. Depression snapped them, one by one, one by one. My only certainty was the fall.”

“We are all the playground of angels and demons.”

“Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.”

“There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”

“Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”

“It's not what you do, it's what it means.”

“The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.”

“And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears, but it’s as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.”

“And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.”

“There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.”

“When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.”