Chapter 15

• “The Commander knocks at the door. The knock is prescribed.”
• “She likes to keep him waiting. It’s a little thing, but in this household little things mean a lot.”
• the sitting room is supposed to be Serena Joy's territory, he's supposed ask permission to enter it.
• “He inserts the key, opens the box, lifts out the Bible. [...] The Bible is kept locked up [...] who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it?”
• "We watch him: every inch, every flicker. [...] “Still, it must be hell, to be a man, like that. It must be just fine. It must be hell. It must be very silent.”
• “We lean towards him a little, iron filings to his magnet. He has something we don’t have, he has the word. How we squandered it, once.”
• “I couldn’t stand the thought of her not being here, with me. For me.”
• “I pray silently: Nolite te bastardes carborondorum. I don’t know what it means, but it sounds right, and it will have to do, because I don’t know what else I can say to God.”
• Her feet did not look like feet at all. They looked like drowned feet, swollen and boneless, except for the colour. They looked like lungs.”
• I knew they made that up, I knew it was wrong, and that they left things out too, but there was no way of checking.
• For our purposes your feet and your hands are not essential
• Moira lay on her bed, an example. She shouldn't of tried it, not with the Angels, Alma said, from the next bed over.
•  Behold my maid Bilhah. She shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. And so on and so forth.