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

“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”