Alex Scarrow

“It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.It sounded like a revolution.It sounded like hope.”

“She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!' He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me.”

“We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”

“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...”

“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.”