Melanie Cusick-Jones

“Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying... I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though I breathed and moved, I was not alive.”

“It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.”

“Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.”

“Oh! I know what I wanted to tell you – you’ll never guess who Thomas is chasing after now…”Hmmm, never guess or can’t be bothered to guess – it was a hard call. I yawned again, glancing at the bed, which was inviting me to clamber back inside and pull the sheet over my head. So tempting, but not practical.”

“For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt he’d found a friend, and that was worth being crazy for.”