Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

She always wanted to believe in things.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.