“Its as if hes trodden in my footsteps, seen what Ive seen, felt what Ive felt, as Ive criss-crossed the moors countless times.”

“They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, Im almost ready. Ive got a...”

“Make no mistake, my darling. I am coming for you. I will take you back.”

“If we were walking here together, Id point out the carnivorous plants that grow on this spot: sundews with sticky red leaves, eating insects to sustain them because the soil is so poor. If you were...”

“Tesco at the best of times is soulless but its so much worse at 6 in the morning. Its not as empty as I thought it would be. Who the fuck shops at 6 a.m.? e florescent lights flicker. e shelf upon...”

“Mum, your heart is the same size as your fist, she told me once in delight, and we both made our hands into fists and held them against our chests and bumped them together: hands as hearts.”

“Its as if hes trodden in my footsteps, seen what Ive seen, felt what Ive felt, as Ive criss-crossed the moors countless times.”

“They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, Im almost ready. Ive got a...”

“Make no mistake, my darling. I am coming for you. I will take you back.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“Didnt anyone ask you where your parents are?""They asked. Especially about my parents.""What did you tell them?""I said I ate them.""Jesus, Rosa.”

“Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.”

“Even the worst humans in the history of the world didnt grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when Im an adult".”