Writing A Novel Proved To Be The

I Guessed Life Was Like That. You Gained And You Lost, And If You Saved Anything From The Ruins, Even If Only A Shred Of Self-respect, It Was Enough To Take You Through The Next Bit.

Emotion Is A Rotten Base For Politics.

The Known Child I Wondered To What Extent People Remained The Same As They'd Been When Very Young; If One Peeled Back The Layers Of Living One Would Come To The Known Child.

Look At Everything Upside Down.take Absolutely Nothing For Granted.

I Hadn’t Had A Mother Since I Was Two, And From Then Until Seven I Had Believed God Was Someone Who Had Run Off With Her And Was Living With Her Somewhere Else... (god Took Your Mother, Dear, Because He Needed Her More Than You Do) Which Had Never Endeared Him To Me