“So - whatever happened to you?''Life. Life happened.”

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.”

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”

“I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.”

“As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.”

“And maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.”

“You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”