Girls and Boys

It’s far more likely for a child to die at the hands of a parent than to be killed by a stranger – nearly three times more likely. It happens every ten days.

I had thought that the man I loved had changed. But this was so much worse. This was realizing that he had never existed in the first place.

This was a shock. And you begin to realise that the terrible secret of all human endeavour might just be that it’s not really that hard.

I know what they’re saying about me.
And I was shocked. But with this woman you didn’t deny, you didn’t not tell the truth so I said
Does it bother you?
And without even blinking she comes straight back.
Yes. But not as much as living my life unhappy.

Paris? Call that a world city? It’s Leeds with wider streets