We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.