The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.