“His home town as it existed in his memory seemed distant to him, like something that belonged to another person. It was almost as though he'd mistaken a place he'd seen on TV or in a film for a thing of his own, or else that the sights seen by someone in one of the thousand or so different flats on that estate had somehow snuck their way into his mind and still remained there. That was how it seemed from time to time.”
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“Black squirrel on a slag of stone--carry me home.”
“You will be sent home. Lula loved being sent home. Her favorite books were there.”
“There is no colder homecoming than a new, finicky lock.”
“Serial killers do not tell their partner what they do when away from the home.”
“Sex addicts do not tell their partner what they actually do when away from the home.”
“The only things a person ever wanted were food and home.”