“Maybe it is not important to go to bed together but get up the following day and make a cup of tea for the other?”

“You're great but you're not there when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning. You don't make me a cup of tea after a hard day at work, or rub my back in the bath. I'm sick of being lonely. Is that so wrong? ”

“Alice would give anything, anything at all, to be lying in bed with Nick, waiting for a cup of tea. Maybe he got sick of making her cups of tea? Was that it? Had she taken him for granted? Who did she think she was, some sort of princess, lying in bed waiting for cups of tea to be delivered.”

“You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...”

“In winter I get up at night,and dress by yellow candlelight,In summer, quite the other day,I have to go to bed by day”

“Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?”