I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

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.

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.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

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