“They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down payment on a DDA flat.”

“His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.”

“As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.”

“...his deceased wife, watches her husband from the photograph on his console desk.”

“Just this morning you didn't seem as though you had an aversion to me. You're here in your dying patient's house, eating dinner with his wife, drinking his whiskey and watching his wife play the piano in a dark room," she shook her head and pouted her lips. "You're already in bed with me.”

“Wartime fears and hardship had faded, We looked to the future with hope: Expectations rose high as new flats in the sky, And “We’d never had it so good!”