Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?