Top Highlights

• Sometimes you’re swimming in unwept tears and you’ll go under if you store them up inside.’
• ‘With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry,
• ‘What is wrong with old? Age isn’t a disease. We all grow old, even books. But are you, is anyone, worth less, or less important, because they’ve been around for longer?’
• Nobody would ever wise up if they hadn’t at some stage been young and stupid.
• ‘Fear transforms your body like an inept sculptor does a perfect block of stone,’ Perdu heard Vijaya’s voice say inside him. ‘It’s just that you’re chipped away at from within, and no one sees how many splinters and layers have been taken off you. You become ever thinner and more brittle inside, until even the slightest emotion bowls you over. One ...