“I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.”

“The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them”

“Fifteen minutes with you Well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were virtually dead And they were so wrongFifteen minutes with you Oh, well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were easily led And they were half-right”

“I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul.""Uh...sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...”

“I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.”

“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”