There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Death was far more certain than God.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.