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‘Old habits die hard, Sarah thought. Or maybe they don’t die at all. Maybe they wait like vampires, sleeping with arms crossed in the basement of your heart waiting for some kind of night; some beautiful, terrible eclipse of reason.’ p237

‘Everything she had ever wanted to hear from a man was hers from the mouth of a girl.’ p311

‘When Frank introduces me, his gaze slides over me like he’s scanning a news article he has realised too late is of no interest to him but must somehow finish.’ p133

‘It was something new in the imperial era: a people’s war that Napoleon found he could not win, a war that dragged on miserably and drained French manpower and resources.’ p247

‘Other migrants are like blown-open grenades, telling their anguish compulsively to everyone they meet, dispensing their pain like shrapnel so they might one day wake to find their burdens have grown lighter. Luca wonders what it would feel like to blow up like that. But for now he remains undetonated, his horrors sealed tightly inside, his pin fixed snugly in place.’ p199