"Together or separate, Silvana was sure nobody would believe the words house or wife had anything to do with her." (To England., p. 2).

"Over the years, Silvana hardened herself against all of them, her crazy mother, her useless father, and the pressing ghosts of her dead brothers; all of them trapped within the four walls of the cottage." (Poland, p. 16).

"The last thing he saw as he stumbled back into the ditch was the goose-girl falling. Murder was the word that flashed into his mind." (Poland, p. 26).

"'I don't want to see any other Polish people...They'll just remind me of what I have lost."' (Ipswich, p. 50).

"He picks up a stick and holds it like a gun, shooting at windows and doors...By the time he gets home, Aurek has killed everybody." (Ipswich, p. 72).

"They are all wrong. He is not a heathen child, whatever that...