But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.