He doesn’t understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you’ve done, but from the things that others have done to you. - Margaret Atwood

Experiences were what you got when you couldn’t get what you wanted.

I thought, men who changed their names were likely to be con-men, criminals, undercover agents or magicians, whereas women who changed their names were probably just married.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.