Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.