“They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.”
“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.”
“The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.”
“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”
“They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.”
“feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock hadcome which must end in its undoing,”