Cagney Jordan

“They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage