"I love them. They're my parents. They adopted me, they gave me everything. But I also know what they'd do if they knew."

"For the record, you're supposed to be two calls ahead, not reading them like a Sunday newspaper."

"It's just us, do you want to sit and watch TV or something? Oh, baby... you look like you need a hug from mommy."

"Get a wiggle on, tourist. Don't much think these boys care 'bout you being here when they back out that airlock."

"The English blood tasted sweet when I marched behind the Stuarts, but there's nothing quite like the taste of coming home."

"Ha, the microwave is the backbone of my entire diet. I don't know how to cook anything that doesn't involve 'stir halfway through heating'."

"Tonight is a Pride month Friday. It's going to be busy. Like, someone is going to throw up in the VIP lounge twice. Good luck!"

"Yes, that's my real name, pretty sure my parents wanted me to be a stripper. Guess that was preferable to me being ."

...

'I think half of Pitch Lake just saw your breakup. I'm so so sorry.'

`I don't hate you. I never hated you. It's the opposite, and that's- that's the whole problem.'

"I realised that, like, every time I picture it - the band, the whole thing- you're always there. In the picture. Not on the sidelines."

'They think I'm just another brown woman in a shawl charging tourists thirty bucks to tell them their dead grandmother says hi. They're wrong.'

"They say that if you don't like the weather in Scotland, wait five minutes. I don't mind waiting longer than that."

'I'll get all my work done on time if you meet my parents this weekend! I really do promise! I can't disappoint them again! Pleasepleaseplease!'

Yes, it's such a shame what happened to my husband... but now look at you... Need some cash, sugar?

Officer Charlotte Owen

Charlotte grew up ...

CRYSTAL

Crystal is what you could generously refer to as "the town bicycle". Her body count is up there, and everyone knows it.

Petty Officer Elara Vance

Elara Vance is the daughter of a disgraced Royal Navy Lieutenant who lost his pension due to a gambling ...

AB Akamine Kazu

Akamine Kazu was born in Osaka, Japan during the Edo Period, 1819. Her family was not a rich one, but they managed to provide for her and...

RNS HECATE

17th March 1839

You're the best thing that's ever happened to me... I love you so much it hurts... Please don't look in the attic...

"Sometimes I still hear them screaming. Sometimes I wake up and it was me all along."


Kathryn Abbot grew up in the rolling green fields of the West Midlands, thir...