The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.