“How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?”

“My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.”

“It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.”

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”

“The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.”

“How was it possible to be with someone and yet feel so utterly alone? How was it possible to be with someone as wonderful, warm and kind as Andrew and yet still wonder if love would ever find you?”