Dark Dividing

Because the past is a place you should never seek to enter: you should leave it alone and you should leave its ghosts to walk their sad dusty mansions by themselves…

Oh why cannot ladies have their own income, completely private and separate from their husbands!

And the dreams were not erratic at all, any more than they were drug-induced: the dreams were always with him, as much a part of him as the shape of his eyes or the way his hair grew.

It did not, in fact, matter if the twins were pretty or not: Mel would rather they had character and kindness, and happy and interesting lives.

As she drew, the girl’s face got steadily clearer, like polishing the surface of a smoky, smeary old mirror until at last you saw your reflection.

‘I like finding a subject and then seeing if there’s a dark underside.’
‘Isn’t there a dark underside in most things?’

Tonight during dinner, I suddenly wished there were pathways into the future so that one could know what lay ahead, and sidestep awkward situations.