“Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.”
“could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. ‘The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap”
“To love makes one solitary, she thought. She could tell nobody, not even Septimus now...”
“I was trying to figure out a way to tell him his love mayonnaise had mad skills and no one at this table could stop talking about vibrators.”
“She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.”
“Mrs. Kersey had not been questioned at all, as far as I knew. She had the air of someone with a story all made up to tell and no one to tell it to.”