My name is Monika Ora Moniker, but you can call me MOM. Or dad will do just fine.


Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Like Mum and that bastard.” “You mean Da?”“Call him what you like.

Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You!

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

I swearwe'd lose ourhearts ifthey weren'twith elasticand butterflypinclasped safelyin.

I’m halfway to being a father. Not 4.5 months out of 9, but ½ of a mating ritual.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.