“If you never bothered to to look or see anything much you wouldn't be worrying' "I'd have to be very dumb to be like that" "Then be dumb, see nothing, hear nothing” — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“I stared so long that I got to seeing them as being dark, ugly sins in my body, smelling and dirty, but my touch… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“Like that time I came home and Mum was sick, not letting me upstairs. Later on I heard Dad actually blaming her for being… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“And then, believe it or not, it came to me for the first time that all the difference was caused by me.” — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“That wallpaper. touching it like that, was one of my protection tricks” — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“He was blaming her for being sick, and she kept repeating, 'I'm forty, do you hear? I'm forty and I've been through enough. I'm… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“I looked back towards them, to see if they were watching me, and saw her pulling her arm from his grip. Her eyes were… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“Do you like Mother and Father?" "they're both all right" "they're not Jimmy, and you shouldn't say so. I hate them, and you should… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“Somehow this is what I wanted to happen. I was holding my ground under attack from my enemies, lashing out at them until they… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“the air just went cold, as it did those times before, and started sticking to my skin, on my arms and legs and face,… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
“I can't, I can't, I can't help hearing, I can't help seeing. I can't help it unless I run away.” — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
