Chapter 38

• “The cattle prod’s on the table, its thong around her wrist. No nonsense here.”
• “Here they haven’t removed the mirror (…) You need to know here, what you look like”
• “This is like backstage: greasepaint, smoke, the materials of illusion”
• ""Godawful" She says. She grins at me. "You look like the Whore of Babylon."
• “Not that it isn’t great to see you. But it’s not so great for you. What’d you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?”
• ““Is it bugged?” I say. (…) “Probably,” says Moira. “You want a cig?””
• “I’ve tried to make it sound as much like her as I can. It’s a way of keeping her alive.”
• Q, it said, which meant Quaker
• “I went to the can, what a relief that was. Bathtub full of plastic fish and so on."
• “Then I sat upstairs in the kids’ room and played with them and their plastic blocks while their parents stayed downstairs and decided what to do about me”
• “the other house was a Quakers too, and they were paydirt, because they were a station on the Underground Femaleroad.”
• “they said they were doing it for religious reasons”
• “It was before the sectarian roundups began in earnest. As long as you said you were some sort of Christian and you were married, for the first time that is, they were still leaving you pretty much alone."
• They were concentrating first on the others. They got them more or less under control before they started in on everybody else.
• “We didn’t end up at the Centre though, we went somewhere else. I won’t go into what happened after that. I’d rather not talk about it. All I can say is they didn’t leave any marks.”