"'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…"

"'That,' I said, 'would be a blessing. There are so many things I'd like to forget I hardly know what would be left st…"

"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…"