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21 " The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death. "
― Glenn Haybittle , The Memory Tree
22 " Landscapes of fields and small clusters of buildings hurtle past outside like fragments of songs never sung in their entirety. "
23 " There are olive trees outside and the imagined smell of their bark and silvered leaves brings with it the first unfurling of some new imperative she feels coiled up within her. Her whole body with a joyful shout know it is back in Italy. "
24 " Hugh is now playing a game on his mobile phone. His greasy fat fingers with bitten down nails surprisingly agile on the keys. The concentration on his face is admirable in a way. It was probably with a similar level of concentration that the theory of relativity was formulated. "
25 " Look how beautiful the flames are, Alowa. Look how beautiful my naked body is, Alowa. Are you looking at my naked body? I’m dancing towards you. "
26 " On a piece of wasteland in Leeds I once saw a used condom in the grass. A dead and sordid thing. And yet to my thirteen-year-old mind the whole mystery of life seemed to stream through it. Nothing I’ve seen since has been so eloquent of the thrilling and terrifying mysteries of life. "
27 " She is curled up inside his smell. He always made her feel both safer and smaller – the latter the price of the former. "