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"Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than ways than one."

"Every person has a season for knowledge."

"And just as he had tried, on the southern beach, to find again that unique rounded black pebble with the regular little white belt, which she had happened to show him on the eve of their last ramble, ..."

"You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts."

"There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it’s in no way intrinsically more accurate, mo..."

"You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are."

"Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to..."

"I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll "light" the whole earth w..."

"Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?"

"For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided."