"He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish."

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If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.

— Julia Gregson