"Marion, stay away just a little longer, please. Don't want the pincers on me just yet. Greasy dishes or baby's dirty bottom." —Chapter 3, page 21

"The new house was not new. And you didn't want to walk too fast in the front door or you'd find yourself going out the back." —Chapter 6, page 47

"In the front gate of Trinity. At least this is a bit professional with all these notices tacked up here. Must admit to an overwhelming fear when I think of exams." —Chapter 8, page 75

"Marion quiet, wild eyes and tearful, watching the man in the rickety chair who held the end of the smashed lamp in his loose pink fingers. Sinister man." —Chapter 11, page 105

"A look, now and again, out the window to see what was to be seen. Police or informers. But just casual persons. Mostly bent and carrying. But it would...