Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.