"'Well,' said Julia, 'you always give the impression of being pretty thoughtful, pretty measured. That's what I mean. You don't say much; but what you do say seems to be worth listening to. That's quite rate, isn't it?' 'It must be a trick,' said Helen slightly. 'When you're quiet, people imagine you"
"So this,said Kay to herself,is the sort of person you've become:a person whose clocks and wrist-watches have stopped,and who tells the time,instead,by the particular kind of cripple arriving at her landlord's door."
"But instead Viv said,'It's funny,thinking back .It's only a couple of years but,you're right,it seems ages away.Some things were easier,then.There was a way of doing things,wasn't there?Someone else had decided it for you,said that was the best way to do it;and that's what you did.It got me down,at "
"Well,sometimes it's easier to be kinder to strangers than to the people we're closest to."