Nathan Filer

"I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it."

"We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us."

"If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope."