Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.