Philip Ridley

“And I thought, I am in love. For the first time I am in love. And loved. Someone loves me. And I love them. And within me things clicked and whirled like the insides of some gigantic clock, cog against wheel, spring against spiral, tick against tock, and I knew that nothing would ever be the same again. I had shown someone what I really was. I had shown someone my truth, my secret. Out there, beyond the walls of the Castle, there was a boy who had seen inside my chrysalis. And I would never be safe again.”

“Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.”

“No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.”