Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

I do not hurt people, they just make me do it.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.