“I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.”

“We make our own destiny.”

“I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...”

“The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.”

“I felt dead and sick inside.”

“Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”