“Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.”

“You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.”

“I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.”

“They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight...”

“Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.”

“I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead”

“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”