"We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough."
- Louise Doughty
"Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever."
"There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability."
"It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared."
"Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night."