“He said it was her fault.
She said it wasn't at all.
But the truth lies somewhere in the middle.”

“He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid.
"Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.”

“Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”

“In war-time,’ I said, ‘truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

“He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”

“Gerry had once said to her in the middle of an argument that he didn't believe in souls but if, just perchance, they did exist, hers would be like a razor. She had been made that way by the Catholic Church, he said. Inflexible, narrow, capable of doing terrible damage by her adherence to rules and systems. But she totally objected. She told him that if she was a good person at all, it had come from her religion. If she had any sense of justice and fairness, any concept of equality, then it had come from the Church.”

“He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.”

“"Don’t preach," said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.”

“She's beautiful,' he murmured.
'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.
'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.”