“ Don't worry, she says. Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald. Naomi Wood
“ Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live. Naomi Wood
“ Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood. Naomi Wood
“ Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore. Naomi Wood
“ No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief. Naomi Wood
“ Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce. Naomi Wood
