M.R. Carey Quotes

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.

But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.

Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.