“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there. ”

“My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower.”

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”

“Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd?”

“When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.”