“For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own”

“I don't believe in the white spectre-type of ghosts you get in stories, but what if ghosts are something else? Like memories somehow caught and trapped in time, released by being in certain places where things first happened.”

“Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was.”

“Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. ”

“I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything.”

“That was when I first began to think about certain events or specific things being "important" and having "special purpose." Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purpose would have been cuckoo to me. I was not what was commonly called a believer then, and I am a believer now; I believe in God, and I believe in the "special purpose" of certain events or specific things.”