I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.