“Its our memories that teach us who we are.”

“Never leave home without your memories.”

“One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.”

“To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and theres excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.”

“Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.”

“Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”