"Most of it I can't remember, anyway. It's all just bits and pieces of things, things that may or may not have happened - scraps of images, vague, feelings, faded photographs of nameless people and forgotten places - that kind of thing" (Section 1, p. 1).

"It took me a long time to realize that the best way to deal with name-calling is to simply ignore it. It's not easy, but I've found that if you let people do or think what they want and don't let your feelings get too mixed up in it, then after a while they usually get bored and leave you alone" (Ibid, p. 3).

"Without me, he was just a drunk. But with me, he was a drunk with responsibilities, a drunk with welfare benefits, a drunk with someone to clean up the puke ...it wasn't so much the thought of losing me that worried...