"The first time I saw him I thought, he won't last." (Chapter 1, p.1)

"So for a while I had two lives: one that was empty and adrift, in the hospital by day and another that was illicit and intense, by the side of the road at night. The one had nothing to do with the other." (Chapter 3, p.26)

"Innovation and change: it was one of her key phrases, a mantra she liked to repeat. But it was empty. Ruth Ngema would go to great lengths to avoid any innovation or change, because who knew what might follow on?" (Chapter 4, p.33)

"When he said, 'I would never do that to you,' he was telling me that he was a true friend. I think he felt that way almost from the first day. Yet the feeling wasn't mutual. He was a room-mate to me, a temporary presence who was...