"Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people …"

"Forests in the day are friendly places. They remind you of Sunday walks, swooshing leaves, holding a parent's big, wa…"

"There's nothing like the waiting room of any office of the governmentor its allies to remind you of how lucky you are…"

"My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that …"

"One of the big things about being a man, she'd noted, was that being good, doing the work, wasn't enough. It had to b…"

"Must be a strange life these days, for toes. A simple twist of fate and they could have been the big boys, the much-f…"

"A pencil is a simple and predictable piece of technology. There's only one way of it working (it will function when i…"

"All the difference in the world are as nothing compared to this: the difference between being you and being me. It ma…"

"It had taken me a while to work out what I got from this. You didn't watch in the hope of seeing something exciting. …"

"It was dry and cold, not bitter, but with the kind of steady chill that makes it hard to remember being any other way…"