“I've developed contours for his elbows and knees and bum, and nobody else quite fits into me in quite the same way”
“...a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...”
“There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.”
“Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.”
“Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.”
“An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee, shoulder which he knows will fit.”