"'He claims,' said Jenny tactfully, 'That he flew through a radioactive cloud thirty years ago and that it didn't do h…"

"'What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed."

"'Didn't this used to be our dining-room table back at Sutherland Street, Frank?' said Kathleen."

"Revolution begins in the kitchen."

"'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'"

"'Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed he…"

"Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me susp…"

"On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the brigh…"

"'It's rather like a Poe story, isn't it,' said Patrick luxuriously, unfocusing his eyes. 'A person sees the chance of…"

"And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy…"