“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”

“Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?”

“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance”

“I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.”

“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”

“I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.”