“Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.”

“This is what Lilly loves about London, that every building, street, common and square, has had different uses, that everything was once spomething else, that the present, was once the past ammended”

“You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated.”

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”

“She walks slowly. She wants to feel the prick, the push of every bit of gravel under her shoe. She wants to feel every scratch, every discomfort of this....her leaving walk.”

“Two women in a room. One seated, one standing”

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”