“For the ones who had a notion,a notion deep insideThat it ain't no sinto be glad you're alive”
“It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.”
“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.”
“For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.”
“Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.”
“There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.”