“Just before the men closed the tail gate on the float, she strained her head to see me and nodded her head so hard her blonde mane flew around her faceshe looked like she was standing in a cloud of...”

“She simply stared at me with such a loving expression on her face, I felt like I was her foal. Indah reached her head as far as she could around me, to press me to her. I melted. How could I live w...”

“Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.”

“Who was that? Layetta asked.Nobody.You cant take a phone call from nobody. That meansthere is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it? I asked.”

“You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.”

“You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,who smiled sheepishly.Sorry. I was reading the Dict...”

“Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...”

“Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.”

“He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and pe...”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”

“Flies are the dead man's revenge.”

“Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.”