“with shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before.”
“Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.”
“... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.”
“Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.”
“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”
“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”