“--a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.”
“We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.”
“The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
“Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Why is that?”“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be”
“...each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.”