“And nobody had told them that they were short on time.”
“Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were”
“They were so sorry, dear; they went down to meet each other in a taxi, honey; they had preferences in smiles and had met in Hindustan, and shortly afterward they must have quarrelled, for nobody knew and nobody seemed to care - yet finally one of them had gone and left the other crying, only to feel blue, to feel sad.”
“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”
“Nobody had told me I was common.”
“Nobody had promised as much as the representives of the short man with the silly-looking moustache, p20”