“We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.”
“We've a bond, haven't we, Goaty? Fellow victims. Partners in survival. Though God knows what my mum will say If I try and take him home...”
“Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.”
“Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.”
“I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.”
“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”