“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is apparition.”

“When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbours cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.”

“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of th...”

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make...”

“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside,...”

“We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.”

“Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emoti...”

“Glasgow is a magnificent city, said McAlpin. Why do we hardly ever notice that? Because nobody imagines living herethink of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first tim...”

“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is apparition.”

“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the firs...”