Quotes from Barbara Haworth-Attard

The greatest loves are those kept in secret.

Life might throw crap at you, but there's always a silver lining.

We recognize the people we love no matter how much they change.

I slept a lot. Which I liked, because being unconscious meant not remembering.

Sometimes out here, people swear to prove they're not scared.

Fear is a rushing sound, like water, in my ears.

I mull that over. Amber treats everyone out here like normal people, not homeless street losers, and in return they give her their names.

The life takes your self-respect. And once that's gone, well, you're lost.

As I do, I'm reminded of textbook pictures I once saw, of ancient priests in the middle of their ceremonies, faces raised to the sun. They knew that was where the real power lay.

Then, suddenly, I reach out and wrap my granddad's hand in mine, like he once held mine, and for a while, the anger inside me quiets.

But maybe what's important is not that I matter to them, but that they matter to me. And mostly that 'I' matter to me.