Wishbones

Mrs Zas has been teaching me basic waltz steps when the shop's quiet. It turns out that being clumsy doesn't affect dancing that much.

'Sit down for a moment'. She kneels in front of me and unscrews her mascara wand. 'The secret is to enhance your beauty, not to distort it. And to be true to your character.'

We carry the past with us, and sometimes that past is so very, very sad that it haunts us and damages us.

Textbooks tell us facts, Jake, poems tell us the truth.

I must be the only teenager on the planet who’s trying to convince her parents to eat healthily.

Depression is sneaky. It hides, waiting for something to happen to knock you off your stride and then it pounces. And once it strikes, it swallows you whole.

There's a saying Dad's used whenever I've been sacred of doing something important: "If you don't let go of the edge, you'll never learn to swim".

Jack says he likes being an only child but I wish I had brothers and sisters. It gets lonely being stuck between Mum and Dad. I mean, I love them, but I wish that there were someone to share stuff with, especially the bad stuff.

(…) when you see a couple that are meant to be together, their edges go blurry and they kind of meld together and become more like one person than two (…)

If the lounge is Mum’s world, the TV is her sun.