“If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, first thing I would have to do would be to leave.”

“As we jumped the tiny hedge because we couldn't be bothered with the tiny gate to set off on our running, I inhaled the early evening light and realized this was softening, what others might...”

“also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing.”

“how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man”